Sir Frederick William Burton, R.H.A. (1816-1900)

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Sir Frederick William Burton, R.H.A. (1816-1900)
The Blind Girl at the Holy Well - Scene in the West of Ireland
with inscription on the back board 'The Blind Girl at the Holy Well/by Sir Frederick Burton/Director National Gallery/Painted for Sir George D'Aquilar K C.B/exhibited by regard in London'; pencil and watercolour 34¾ x 28½in. (88.3 x 72.4cm.)

Exhibited

Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, 1840, no.257

Lot Essay

Burton was a painter of portraits and genre subjects who trained under the three Brocas brothers in Dublin. He was a founder member of the Archaeological Society of Ireland and was elected F.S.A. in 1863. In 1874 he was appointed Director of the National Gallery of Ireland and devoted much of his time to improving the gallery's collection of old masters

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