Only Connect - Charles Burney <> Fanny Burney
How are these sitters connected?
Charles Burney
by George Dance
1794
NPG 1140
Frances 'Fanny' Burney
by Edward Francisco Burney
circa 1785
NPG 2634
The connection
The novelist and diarist Fanny Burney was the daughter of the pioneering musicologist Charles Burney.
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