William Burgess (painter)

William Burgess (c.1749 – 1812) was an English artist.

Life

The son of Thomas Burgess of the Maiden Lane Academy, he was a painter and art teacher. He showed at the Royal Academy between 1774 and 1811,[1] and also at the Society of Artists and the Free Society of Artists.[2] His exhibited works included portraits (some noted as drawings in the catalogues), drawings of animals, and landscapes, many of them of Welsh subjects. London addresses are given throughout his career: in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden; Kemp's Town Chelsea; Gloucester Street, Queen's Square; Great Maddox Street; Piccadilly; Michael's Grove, Brompton, and finally, from 1797, Sloane Square, Chelsea.[3]

He died in London in 1812, aged 63. His son, H. W. Burgess, was landscape painter to William IV.[1]

References

1. Bryan 1886
2. Graves, Algernon (1884). A Dictionary of Artists who have Exhibited Works in the Principal London Exhibitions of Oil Paintings from 1760 to 1880. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 36. According to Graves, Burgess exhibited as early as 1762.
3. Graves, Algernon (1905). The Royal Academy: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors from its Foundations in 1769 to 1904. 1. London: Henry Graves. p. 349.

Sources

• Goodwin, Gordon (1886). "Burgess, William (1749?-1812)" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 7. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 314.

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Burgess, William". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)