John Burr
John P. Burr RBA (1831, Edinburgh – 1893, London) was a Scottish oil and watercolour painter of genre scenes, portraits, and landscapes.[1]
At the age of fourteen, Burr began painting portraits of well-to-do people in small Scottish towns. After study at the
Society of British Artists and in 1883 a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters
. He was president of the Society of British Artists from 1881 until May or June 1886 when he resigned.
References
- ^ John P. Burr, 1831–1893, The Correspondence of James McNeil Whistler
- ^ Boase, Frederic (1908). "Burr, John". Modern English biography: containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died during the years 1850–1900. Vol. 4, A–C. p. 551.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to John Burr.
- 27 artworks by or after John Burr at the Art UK site
- John Burr in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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