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Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Sir Frederic William Burton (1816-1900), Watercolour painter and Director of the National Gallery

Portraits in Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue | Other NPG portraits

Sir Frederic William Burton

by Henry Tanworth Wells
1863
NPG 1701

Private View of the Old Masters Exhibition, Royal Academy, 1888

by Henry Jamyn Brooks
1889
NPG 1833

All known portraits

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