Sir Frederic William Burton
(1816-1900), Watercolour painter and Director of the National GallerySitter in 6 portraits
Artist associated with 11 portraits
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.
by Sir Frederic William Burton
chalk, 1865
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Unknown woman, formerly known as George Eliot
by Sir Frederic William Burton
pencil
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Helen Faucit (Helena (née Faucit Saville), Lady Martin)
by Richard James Lane, printed by Graf & Soret, published by Joseph Dickinson, after Sir Frederic William Burton
lithograph, published 1 February 1836
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by James Henry Lynch, printed by M & N Hanhart, after Sir Frederic William Burton
lithograph, (1848)
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Helen Faucit (Helena (née Faucit Saville), Lady Martin)
by Richard James Lane, after Sir Frederic William Burton
lithograph, published 1857
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Helen Faucit (Helena (née Faucit Saville), Lady Martin)
by Richard James Lane, after Sir Frederic William Burton
lithograph, published circa 1857
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Helen Faucit (Helena (née Faucit Saville), Lady Martin)
by Richard James Lane, after Sir Frederic William Burton
lithograph, published 1857
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Helen Faucit (Helena (née Faucit Saville), Lady Martin), Sir Frederick William Burton
by Richard James Lane, after Sir Frederic William Burton
lithograph, published 1857
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by Paul Adolphe Rajon, after Sir Frederic William Burton
etching, (1865)
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