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Frederic William Burton
Ireland, 1816–1900
Frederic William Burton was an Ireland British Romanticism artist. 3 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum. Frederic William Burton was born in Wicklow.
Sir Frederic William Burton (8 April 1816 in Wicklow – 16 March 1900 in London) was an Irish Victorian painter and curator who was the third director of 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 Turret Stairs (1864; also known as Hellelil and Hildebrand) are in the National Gallery of Ireland. Meeting on the Turret Stairs was voted by the Irish public as Ireland's favourite painting in 2012 from among 10 works shortlisted by critics.
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