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Sir Frederic William Burton was an Irish painter and museum director. He was taught painting by the Brocas brothers in Dublin and, like them, he specialised in watercolours. He soon established himself as a portrait painter, and he had many notable sitters in Dublin. Burton was elected Royal Hibernian Academician in 1839 at the age of twenty-three. In 1851 he settled in Munich, from where he made sketching trips and visits to German art galleries. He subsequently settled in London, where he continued to devote himself to the study of art history and to portrait painting.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Sir Frederic William Burton

Date

1863

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 76.2 x W 63.8 cm

Accession number

1701

Acquisition method

Given by the artist's daughters, Mrs A. E. Street and Mrs W. Hadle, 1913

Work type

Painting

National Portrait Gallery, London

St Martin’s Place, London, Greater London WC2H 0HE England

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Artist or maker

Henry Tanworth Wells

1828–1903

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