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Edward Francis Burney

 Drawing - Return From The Chase. Westwood House Worcestershire The Seat Of Sir John Packington by Edward Francis Burney

Return From The Chase. Westwood House Worcestershire The Seat Of Sir John Packington

 Drawing - Pelasgus Civilizes The Greeks by Edward Francis Burney

Pelasgus Civilizes The Greeks

 Drawing - The Marriage Of Telephus And Auge Prevented by Edward Francis Burney

The Marriage Of Telephus And Auge Prevented

 Drawing - Berenice Wife Of Antiochus Theos And Her Son Take Refuge In Daphne by Edward Francis Burney

Berenice Wife Of Antiochus Theos And Her Son Take Refuge In Daphne

 Drawing - The Wife Of Ceteus Burnt On The Pile Of Her Husband by Edward Francis Burney

The Wife Of Ceteus Burnt On The Pile Of Her Husband

 Drawing - Themistocles Discovers Himself To The Persian King by Edward Francis Burney

Themistocles Discovers Himself To The Persian King

 Drawing - Evadne Throws Herself On The Funeral Pile Of Her Husband Capaneus by Edward Francis Burney

Evadne Throws Herself On The Funeral Pile Of Her Husband Capaneus

 Drawing - The Colossus Of Rhodes by Edward Francis Burney

The Colossus Of Rhodes

 Drawing - Pericles Attends The Lectures Of Aspasia by Edward Francis Burney

Pericles Attends The Lectures Of Aspasia

 Drawing - Tymicha And Millius Before Dionysius by Edward Francis Burney

Tymicha And Millius Before Dionysius

 Drawing - Perseus And Andromeda by Edward Francis Burney

Perseus And Andromeda

 Drawing - Bacchus Returning In Triumph From India by Edward Francis Burney

Bacchus Returning In Triumph From India

 Drawing - Fortitude Of Harmonia by Edward Francis Burney

Fortitude Of Harmonia

 Drawing - Death Of Aridaeus And Eurydice by Edward Francis Burney

Death Of Aridaeus And Eurydice

 Drawing - The Origin Of Painting by Edward Francis Burney

The Origin Of Painting

 Drawing - Danae And Perseus Exposed by Edward Francis Burney

Danae And Perseus Exposed

 Drawing - Death Of Polyxena by Edward Francis Burney

Death Of Polyxena

 Drawing - Lysimachus Thrown Into The Den Of A Lion by Edward Francis Burney

Lysimachus Thrown Into The Den Of A Lion

 Drawing - Panthea Wife Of Abradates Stabs Herself by Edward Francis Burney

Panthea Wife Of Abradates Stabs Herself

Edward Francis Burney (1760–1848 ) was an English artist. His middle name is sometimes given as "Francisco" or "Francesco".[1]

Life

Burney was born in Worcester on 7 September 1760, the son of Richard Burney and Elizabeth Humphries.[1] The musicologist Charles Burney was his uncle and the writer Frances (or "Fanny") Burney was his cousin.[1][2] He studied at the Royal Academy Schools from 1776, where he received encouragement from Sir Joshua Reynolds.[1]

He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1780 until 1803. His work included historical subjects and portraits of friends and family. A portrait of his cousin Frances[1] was engraved as a frontispiece to her works,[3] and in 1780 he exhibited three drawings illustrating her novel Evelina,[3] which were engraved for a 1791 edition of the work. Much of his work was done for book illustrations, including a series for an edition of Milton's Paradise Lost.


The monument to George Frideric Handel in Westminster Abbey with the plaque recording his Commemoration, from "An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster Abbey, and the Pantheon, May 26, 27, 29 and June 3, 5, 1784, in Commemoration of Handel" by Charles Burney.


Satirical works

In the 1820s Burney painted four large watercolours satirising contemporary musical and social life: The Waltz, The Elegant Establishment for Young Ladies (both Victoria and Albert Museum), Amateurs of Tye-Wig Music and The Glee Club; or, The Triumph of Music (both Yale Center for British Art), possibly with the intention of publishing prints after them. They were never engraved, but he did work up Amateurs of Tye-Wig Music into an oil painting, now in the collection of the Tate Gallery. The picture draws on the debate over the relative virtues of modern music (exemplified by Beethoven and Mozart) as against that of earlier composers, such as Handel, whose bust overlooks the ramshackle band of musicians in the painting, and Corelli, one of whose pieces they are playing. Burney's uncle Charles took a leading part in the argument, on the side of the modernists.[2]


Death

Burney died in London on 16 December 1848, at the age of 88. He never married.[1]
References

"Edward Francisco Burney (1760-1848)". The Burney Centre at McGill University. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
"Edward Francis Burney: Amateurs of Tye-Wig Music ('Musicians of the Old School') c.1820". Tate Gallery. Retrieved 20 October 2013.

Bryan,1886-9

Sources

This article incorporates text from the article "BURNEY, Edward Francis" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

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