# John Burr > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/John_Burr > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/John_Burr.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burr > Source revision: 1343230969 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{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](/source/Edinburgh), Scotland | baptised = | death_date = {{dya|1893|1831}} | death_place = [London](/source/London), England | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | education = | alma_mater = | known_for = | notable_works = | style = Oil and watercolour | movement = [Genre art](/source/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](/source/Royal_Society_of_British_Artists)}} (1831, Edinburgh – 1893, London) was a Scottish oil and watercolour painter of genre scenes, portraits, and landscapes.[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] 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](/source/Trustees'_Academy), 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](/source/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](/source/British_Institution), 3 at the [Grosvenor Gallery](/source/Grosvenor_Gallery), 35 at the [Society of British Artists](/source/Royal_Society_of_British_Artists), 18 at the Royal Water Colour Society, and numerous paintings in other locations in London.{{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}} 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](/source/Society_of_British_Artists) and in 1883 a member of the [Royal Institute of Oil Painters](/source/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== 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 ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== {{Commons category|John Burr}} *{{Art UK bio}} *{{worldcat|id=np-burr,%20john%20p$1831%201893}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Burr, John P.}} Category:1831 births Category:1893 deaths Category:Scottish landscape painters Category:19th-century Scottish painters Category:Scottish male painters Category:Members of the Royal Society of British Artists Category:19th-century Scottish male artists Category:Alumni of the Trustees' Academy --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [John Burr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burr) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burr?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.