Sir Frederic William Burton Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Sir Frederic William Burton NPG 1701
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Henry Tanworth Wells
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... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










