Shakespeare Cliff and Pilot House

Location

Country: Saudi Arabia
City: Jeddah
Place: British Consulate-General

William Burgess was born in London; the son of painter Thomas Burgess. In 1861 he was awarded a premium by the Society of Arts. He later exhibited portraits and conversation-pieces with the Free Society of Artists in 1769 and 1771, and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1774, showing portraits and landscape views. He married Jane, with whom he had three sons: Henry William, John Cart and Thomas Burgess, all of whom became painters. William made sketching trips in south Wales and the Wye in 1785. Like his father, he was probably best known and better rewarded financially as a teacher of drawing than as an artist. He died at his home in Sloane Square, Chelsea. Today, examples of his work are in the British Museum and Newport Art Gallery.

Places

England, Dover, Kent

Subjects

rowing boat, shovel/spade, carriage, wagon, topography, seascape/coastal scene, townscape/cityscape, dog, horse, groyne, cliff, man, woman, lamp post, house, door, window, sailboat

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, coloured lithograph

Artist

William Burgess (1748/9 - 1812)

Title

Shakespeare Cliff and Pilot House

Date

Medium

Coloured lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Parker Gallery, December 1963

GAC number

6350