{{short description|Scottish painter}} {{about||the American abolitionist|John Pierre Burr}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=September 2017}} {{Infobox artist | honorific_prefix = | name = John Burr | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = John P. Burr | birth_date = 1831 | birth_place = Edinburgh, Scotland | baptised = | death_date = {{dya|1893|1831}} | death_place = London, England | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | education = | alma_mater = | known_for = | notable_works = | style = Oil and watercolour | movement = Genre art | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | father = | mother = | relatives = | family = | awards = | signature = | signature_type = | signature_size = | signature_alt = | elected = | patrons = | memorials = | website = | module = }}

'''John P. Burr''' {{post-nominals|list=RBA}} (1831, Edinburgh – 1893, London) was a Scottish oil and watercolour painter of genre scenes, portraits, and landscapes.<ref>[http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/people/biog/?bid=Burr_J&initial=B John P. Burr, 1831–1893, The Correspondence of James McNeil Whistler]</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite book|author=Boase, Frederic|title=Modern English biography: containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died during the years 1850–1900|chapter=Burr, John|year=1908|volume=4, A-C|page=551|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UzMqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA2016}}</ref> He also exhibited in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester. His works include ''The Peepshow'' and ''The 5 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== <gallery> File:A Happy Home by John Burr - John Burr - ABDAG003298.jpg|''A Happy Home'', by John Burr File:John Burr (1831-1893) - John Burr (1831–1893), Artist - PG 1319 - National Galleries of Scotland.jpg|Self-portrait by John Burr – National Galleries of Scotland File:John Burr Mädchen mit rotem Umhang 1871.jpg|''Girl with a Red Cloak'' (1871), by John Burr File:Self Portrait - John Burr - ABDAG003299.jpg|Self-Portrait, by John Burr </gallery>

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