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Sir James Burrow

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Sir James Burrow, by Arthur Devis, based on a work from 1780s -NPG 3090(8) - © National Portrait Gallery, London

© National Portrait Gallery, London

Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue

Sir James Burrow

after Arthur Devis
based on a work from 1780s
8 5/8 in. x 5 1/2 in. (219 mm x 133 mm)
NPG 3090(8)

Inscriptionback to top

Lettered below: Sir James Burrow Knt with inscriptions along the bottom edge: Pinxit and Basire.

This portraitback to top

A pedantic drawing, the head and bands matching both in size and substance, those in Basire’s 1780 print after Arthur Devis. [1] The absence of Basire’s ornate detail from the gown and coat may suggest it was taken from the plate. An ink drawing of Burrow by Basire was listed in 1824. [2]
Devis’s original painting, showing Burrow in his legal robes standing whole length in a medieval courtyard, remains untraced; it has been described as his last known work. [3]

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1) Painted by Arthur Devis - Drawn & Engrav’d by James Basire 1780; the caption describing Burrow as FRS, FSA and an honorary member of the ‘Societé des Antiquités at Cassell’.
2) Rodd’s priced sale cat., 1824, p 6, no.15.
3) E. D. D'Oench, The Conversation Piece: Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries, exhibition catalogue, New Haven, 1980, pp 17, 81, no.24.

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Purchased from Messrs Appelby 1940.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.

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