John Burr

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · 1831–1893

Burr 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.