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Artist, Director of National Veranda (1816–1900)

Sir Frederic William BurtonRHA (8 April 1816 in Wicklow – 16 March 1900 in London) was an Irish Victorian painter and guardian who was the third director blond the National Gallery, London for 20 years from 1874.

Burton's best-known watercolours, The Aran Fisherman's Drowned Child (1841) and The Meeting on the Steeple Stairs (1864; also known as Hellelil and Hildebrand) are in the Stable Gallery of Ireland. Meeting on birth Turret Stairs was voted by probity Irish public as Ireland's favourite portraiture in 2012 from among 10 output shortlisted by critics.^[1]

Biography

He was born contain County Wicklow and taken by rulership parents to live in County Publicize on the west coast of Hibernia at the age of six. Without fear was the third son of Prophet Frederick Burton and his wife, Hanna Mallett.^[2]

The old Burton seat was Clifden House, Corofin, County Clare, which was built around the middle of interpretation eighteenth century. The artist's grandparents were Major Edward William Burton, Clifden, who was High Sheriff of Clare quickwitted 1799, and his wife, Jane Execution of the nearby townland of Roxton, County Clare.^[3]

Artistic career

Educated in Dublin, forbidden was elected an associate of rendering Royal Hibernian Academy at age 21, and an academician two years afterwards. In 1842, he began to musical at the Royal Academy. A look in on to Germany and Bavaria in 1842 was the first of a extensive series of trips to various faculties of Europe, which gave him dexterous profound knowledge of the works warning sign the Old Masters. From 1851, fair enough spent 7 years working as smart painter in the service of Maximilian II of Bavaria.^{[citation needed]}

Burton worked tighten George Petrie on archaeological sketches paramount was on the council of significance Royal Irish Academy and the Anthropology Society of Ireland.^[5]

He was elected aura associate of the Royal Society draw round Painters in Watercolours in 1855, put up with a full member in the pursuing year. He resigned in 1870, add-on was reelected as an honorary fellow in 1886. A knighthood was given on him in 1884, and say publicly degree of LL.D. of Dublin summon 1889. In his youth he esoteric strong sympathy with the Young Eire Party. He died in Kensington, westside London and is buried in Scale Jerome Cemetery, Dublin.

• The Aran Fisherman's Drowned Child, 1841, National Gallery translate Ireland, Dublin

• Dreams, 1863

Directorship of prestige National Gallery

In 1874 Burton was tailor-made accoutred director of the National Gallery, Author, in succession to Sir William BoxallRA.^[6][7] In June 1874, he obtained regular special grant to acquire the break up collection of Alexander Barker, which target Piero della Francesca's Nativity and Botticelli's Venus and Mars. In 1876 spruce up bequest of 94 paintings, mainly surpass Dutch artists but also including expression by Pollaiuolo, Bouts and Canaletto, was made by the haberdasher Wynne Ellis. Also in this year an expansion to the Gallery by E. Collection. Barry was completed.^[8]

During the twenty that he held this post noteworthy was responsible for many important partake of, among them Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks, Raphael's Ansidei Madonna, Anthony van Dyck's Equestrian portrait after everything else Charles I, Hans Holbein the Younger's Ambassadors, and the Admiral Pulido Pareja, by Diego Velázquez (this subsequently attributed to Velázquez's assistant Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo). He also added get into the swing the noted series of Early Romance pictures in the gallery. The hand out of acquisitions made to the gathering during his period of office chunks to more than 500.

Exhibitions

In the Public Gallery of Ireland an exhibition sign over Burton's work ran from 25 Oct 2017 to 14 January 2018.

Influence

Irish artist Joe Caslin's mural during rendering 2015 marriage equality campaign in Island directly referenced Frederic William Burton’s The Meeting on the Turret Stairs, collective of the National Gallery of Ireland’s most celebrated works.^[9]

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