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John P. Burr RBA (1831, Edinburgh – 1893, London) was a Scottish oil and watercolour painter of genre scenes, portraits, and landscapes.

At the age of fourteen, Burr began painting portraits of well-to-do people in small Scottish towns. After study at the Trustees' Academy in Edinburgh, Burr painted in Edinburgh until 1861. That year, he and his younger brother Alexander Hohenlohe Burr (1835–1899) established themselves as painters in London. Burr first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1862 and worked in London until 1892. During his career in London, he exhibited 18 paintings at the Royal Academy, 1 at the British Institution, 3 at the Grosvenor Gallery, 35 at the Society of British Artists, 18 at the Royal Water Colour Society, and numerous paintings in other locations in London. He also exhibited in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester. His works include The Peepshow and The 5th of November. Burr was elected in 1875 a member of the Society of British Artists and in 1883 a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. He was president of the Society of British Artists from 1881 until May or June 1886 when he resigned.

Gallery

• A Happy Home, by John Burr
• Self-portrait by John Burr – National Galleries of Scotland
• Girl with a Red Cloak (1871), by John Burr
• Self-Portrait, by John Burr

References

1. John P. Burr, 1831–1893, The Correspondence of James McNeil Whistler
2. Boase, Frederic (1908). "Burr, John". Modern English biography: containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died during the years 1850–1900. Vol. 4, A–C. p. 551.

External links

• 27 artworks by or after John Burr at the Art UK site
• John Burr in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

• 1831 births
• 1893 deaths
• Scottish landscape painters
• 19th-century Scottish painters
• Scottish male painters
• Members of the Royal Society of British Artists
• 19th-century Scottish male artists
• Alumni of the Trustees' Academy