Anne-Margaretta Burr

Anne-Margaretta Burr (née Scobell, also known as Margaretta Higford Burr; 30 April 1817 – 22 January 1892[1]) was an English watercolour painter.[2]

Gateway of a Bazaar, Grand Cairo watercolour by Anne-Margaretta Burr (1840)

Biography

Burr was born at Poltair House in Poltair, Cornwall. She was the only daughter of Royal Navy Captain Edward Scobell.[3] Scobell also owned a property in London's Dorset Square.[4] Burr travelled widely for inspiration, and published Sketches in Spain, The Holy Land, Egypt, Turkey, and Greece in 1841.[5] Burr later became a travelling companion of Austen Layard, and painted many watercolours on travels through Egypt and Turkey.[6] Dante Gabriel Rossetti wrote descriptions of her tracings of threatened Italian mosaics in the mid-19th century.[6]

On 18 September 1839, the then Anne-Margaretta Scobell married Daniel Higford Davall Burr at St Marylebone Parish Church.[7] Over the next 15 years, the couple had three sons – Higford (born 20 July 1840), Edward (born 25 September 1842), and James-Scudamore (born 15 January 1854).[3]

After her husband's death in 1885, Burr retired to Venice where she died on 22 January 1892.[8] The couple's English property, Aldermaston Court, was inherited by Higford on his father's death.[9] Higford, who also took the surname Higford (after an ancestor) and was known as Higford Higford, sold the estate to Charles Edward Keyser in 1893.[9]

Works

Burr's works include Interior of a Harem, in Cairo, Holy Sepulchre, in Jerusalem, The Missr Tcharsky, or Egyptian Market, in Constantinople, The Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Cairo (1846), Gateway of a Bazaar, Grand Cairo (1846), and Street Leading to El Azhar, Grand Cairo (1846).[10]

gollark: ?tag blub Graham considers a hypothetical Blub programmer. When the programmer looks down the "power continuum", he considers the lower languages to be less powerful because they miss some feature that a Blub programmer is used to. But when he looks up, he fails to realise that he is looking up: he merely sees "weird languages" with unnecessary features and assumes they are equivalent in power, but with "other hairy stuff thrown in as well". When Graham considers the point of view of a programmer using a language higher than Blub, he describes that programmer as looking down on Blub and noting its "missing" features from the point of view of the higher language.
gollark: > As long as our hypothetical Blub programmer is looking down the power continuum, he knows he's looking down. Languages less powerful than Blub are obviously less powerful, because they're missing some feature he's used to. But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in the other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't realize he's looking up. What he sees are merely weird languages. He probably considers them about equivalent in power to Blub, but with all this other hairy stuff thrown in as well. Blub is good enough for him, because he thinks in Blub.
gollark: Imagine YOU are a BLUB programmer.
gollark: Imagine a language which is UTTERLY generic in expressiveness and whatever, called blub.
gollark: There's the whole "blub paradox" thing.

References
  1. British Archaeological Association (1898). The Archaeological Journal. 55. London: Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. p. 390.
  2. Clayton, Ellen Creathorne (1876). English Female Artists. London: Tinsley Brothers. p. 408.
  3. Burke, Bernard (1858). A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. 1. London: Harrison. p. 159.
  4. Rivington, The Annual Register, or, a View of the History and Politics of the Year 1839, volume 81, (London: J. G. and F. Rivington, 1840), p. 300
  5. Browning, Robert; DeVane, William Clyde (1950). New Letters. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. p. 370.
  6. Rossetti, Dante Gabriel; Fredeman, William Evan (2005). The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Chelsea Years, 1863–1872, Prelude to Crisis: 1871–1872. Frederiksberg: Forlaget Samfundslitteratur. p. 511. ISBN 1-84384-031-6.
  7. White, William (1910). Notes and Queries. 122. Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press. p. 350.
  8. Browning, Robert; de Kay Bronson, Katharine; Meredith, Michael; Humphrey, Rita S (1985). More Than Friend: The Letters of Robert Browning to Katharine de Kay Bronson. Waco, Texas: Armstrong Browning Library of Baylor University. p. 41. ISBN 0-911459-06-5.
  9. Currie, CRJ; Herbert, NM, eds. (1996). "Alvington: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean". A History of the County of Gloucester. 5. pp. 5–14.
  10. Art Finder. "A. Margaretta Burr". London: Artfinder.com. Archived from the original on 4 September 2011. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
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