The sketch name/title (A boy and Two Adults in an Interior) Displayed in London 1875
The Painting (John Burr 1876) name/title (I BELIEVE THIS TO BE ONE IN THE SAME)
It was taken out of an old beat up frame to get pictures to post. My research has lead me to believe this is a true original is there anything you could tell me about this painting? The sketch attached to this email was drawn by John Burr in 1875 it was called " A boy And Two Adults in an Interior" I found this sketch online and it is located in London at the Royal Academy Of Arts. The sketch was given to the London Royal Academy of Arts by (Lady Orchardson in 1916) The sketch was sketched with pencil on wash wove paper. I thought the child was a girl but they didn't wear paint or overalls in those days. When I found the sketch I realized the child was a boy.
Now please view the attachments of the paintings and signatures. My belief is the painting is of this sketch 1875, John Burr painted in 1876.....modified somewhat with furniture and such. There is just to much likeness. None of his other art work is to close in nature. I have searched his work and this painting is not anywhere online for me to believe it is a copy.
I have shown some close detail in these pictures so you can see the paint rolling at the bottom of the painting which also leads me to believe it is in fact authentic. The signatures are from the same there is no doubt whatsoever. Now if this were a copy. Where is the original? It surely isn't online or any museums or art galleries, and knowone is selling copies of it. As they are all of his other work. I do believe this is the original. Any information you could give me or lead me in right direction would be greatly appreciated. I would like to know who the people were and the value of the painting. Please email me at [email protected] if you have any information or questions.
Sincerely,
Lisa
Re: John Burr Painting
Forbes Magazine Collection, No. 525
Commentary by Christopher Forbes
John Burr was born in Edinburgh in 1834. Both he and his younger brother, Alexander Hohenlohe Burr (1835-1899), became practicing artists. At the age of fourteen the older Burr began painting portraits of local notables in small Scottish towns. Five years later he entered the Trustee's Academy in Edinburgh where he studied under Robert Scott Lauder (1803-1869). While a student he began exhibiting at the Royal Scottish Academy, and his contributions of 1857 and 1858 were purchased by the Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland. In the year 1861 both Burr brothers moved to London. They began exhibiting at the Royal Academy the next year.
Almost all of the eighteen works that the elder Burr exhibited at the Academy were precise, often humorous genre scenes reminiscent of the work of his compatriot Thomas Faed (1826-1900) but lacking somewhat in the latter's sympathy for his subjects. As one critic put it, the characters depicted by Burr "are always characters." Nevertheless, he made a reputation for himself, and was an Associate of the Old Watercolour Society and President of the Society of British Artists, preceding Whistler in that post. He stopped exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1882 and died in 1893, spending the last years of his life in relative obscurity.
The Peepshow is typical of Burr's oeuvre. It is precisely painted, and the subject is one with which the viewer identifies easily. The picture was exhibited at the Royal Academy in the same year as Thomas Webster's Battle of Waterloo. This more complex and more amusing composition also depicted a penny peepshow concluded: "The Peepshow . . . is a humorous and very clever composition of its kind, presented in a manner that would bring credit to any artist, even of high reputation."
Such unpretentious scenes of childhood have never lost their popular appeal; the Saturday Evening Post covers of Norman Rockwell are their twentieth-century descendants. One hundred and six years after it appeared on the walls of the Royal Academy, The Peepshow itself appeared on the cover of the Christmas Number of The Illustrated London News.