Frederic William Burton

Ireland · 1816–1900

Sir Frederic William Burton was an Irish Victorian painter, mainly in watercolour, 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. == Biography == He was born in County Wicklow and taken by his parents to live in County Clare on the west coast of Ireland at the age of six. He was the third son of Samuel Frederick Burton and his wife, Hanna Mallett.

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