William Paton Burton Art
British, 1828-1883
William Paton Burton was born 1828, in Madras, India and died December 1883, in Aberdeen, Scotland. William Paton Burton was an architect, painter and watercolourist. His father was an officer in the Indian Army. Burton first studied with David Bryce in Edinburgh. After a period spent studying architecture, he dedicated himself to painting in watercolors. He was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy and in Suffolk Street between 1862 and 1880. He travelled extensively, particularly in Egypt and Europe.(Biography provided by Fine Art San Diego)
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Artist: William Paton Burton
William Paton Burton (1828-1883) - Watercolour, On the River at Beeding, Sussex
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William Paton Burton (1828-1883) - Large Watercolour, The Farm by the Ford
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A fine pastoral landscape depicting a farm beside a ford. Two figures talk secretively over a fence to the right of the composition. Presented in a white double mount and a distresse...
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Arab Marketplace (Souk) in Tanta, Egypt 1874 Orientalist watercolor by W. Burton
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Inscribed lower left, "Market Place Tanta Egypt". Signed and dated 1874.
This watercolor depicts an Arab Marketplace (Souk) in Tanta, Egypt.
William Paton Burton was born 1828, in Madras, India and died December 1883, in Aberdeen, Scotland.
William Paton Burton was an architect, painter and watercolourist.
His father was an officer in the Indian Army.
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