Coronation Fair Hyde Park

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Watercolourist John Burgess was born in Birmingham; the son of landscape painter John Cart Burgess (1788/9-1863) and Charlotte (born c.1792), daughter of painter and engraver Anker Smith (1759-1819). Burgess became a painter after an early career on the sea. In about 1833 he went to Italy via Normandy and Paris, and stayed there until 1837. At this period he was striving to be a figure painter, but he later turned to landscape. On his return he made sketching tours in Devon, Surrey and the Thames Valley, and in 1840 settled in Leamington Spa. In 1851 he was elected an associate member of the Society of Painters in Watercolour. Burgess was still living in Wellington Street, Leamington Spa, when his father died at that address in 1863.

Places

England, London, Hyde Park

Subjects

rest/sleep, topography, townscape/cityscape, grass, tree, man, woman, crowd, shawl, bonnet, child, flag, fair/festival/carnival, coronation, park, tent/marquee

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), watercolour (as object name)

Artist

John Burgess (1814 - 1874)

Title

Coronation Fair Hyde Park

Date

1838

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 29.30 cm, width: 44.80 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Frank T Sabin, October 1961

Inscription

verso, br: Hyde Park Fair

Provenance

Gardner Collection; Hollebone Collection; with Frank T. Sabin; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in October 1961

GAC number

5632