Anne-Margaretta Burr

Anne-Margaretta Burr (née Scobell, also known as Margaretta Higford Burr; 30 April 1817 – 22 January 1892[1]) was an English watercolour painter.[2]

Gateway of a Bazaar, Grand Cairo watercolour by Anne-Margaretta Burr (1840)

Biography

Burr was born at Poltair House in Poltair, Cornwall. She was the only daughter of Royal Navy Captain Edward Scobell.[3] Scobell also owned a property in London's Dorset Square.[4] Burr travelled widely for inspiration, and published Sketches in Spain, The Holy Land, Egypt, Turkey, and Greece in 1841.[5] Burr later became a travelling companion of Austen Layard, and painted many watercolours on travels through Egypt and Turkey.[6] Dante Gabriel Rossetti wrote descriptions of her tracings of threatened Italian mosaics in the mid-19th century.[6]

On 18 September 1839, the then Anne-Margaretta Scobell married Daniel Higford Davall Burr at St Marylebone Parish Church.[7] Over the next 15 years, the couple had three sons – Higford (born 20 July 1840), Edward (born 25 September 1842), and James-Scudamore (born 15 January 1854).[3]

After her husband's death in 1885, Burr retired to Venice where she died on 22 January 1892.[8] The couple's English property, Aldermaston Court, was inherited by Higford on his father's death.[9] Higford, who also took the surname Higford (after an ancestor) and was known as Higford Higford, sold the estate to Charles Edward Keyser in 1893.[9]

Works

Burr's works include Interior of a Harem, in Cairo, Holy Sepulchre, in Jerusalem, The Missr Tcharsky, or Egyptian Market, in Constantinople, The Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Cairo (1846), Gateway of a Bazaar, Grand Cairo (1846), and Street Leading to El Azhar, Grand Cairo (1846).[10]

References
  1. British Archaeological Association (1898). The Archaeological Journal. Vol. 55. London: Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. p. 390.
  2. Clayton, Ellen Creathorne (1876). English Female Artists. London: Tinsley Brothers. p. 408.
  3. Burke, Bernard (1858). A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 1. London: Harrison. p. 159.
  4. Rivington, The Annual Register, or, a View of the History and Politics of the Year 1839, volume 81, (London: J. G. and F. Rivington, 1840), p. 300
  5. Browning, Robert; DeVane, William Clyde (1950). New Letters. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. p. 370.
  6. Rossetti, Dante Gabriel; Fredeman, William Evan (2005). The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Chelsea Years, 1863–1872, Prelude to Crisis: 1871–1872. Frederiksberg: Forlaget Samfundslitteratur. p. 511. ISBN 1-84384-031-6.
  7. White, William (1910). Notes and Queries. Vol. 122. Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press. p. 350.
  8. Browning, Robert; de Kay Bronson, Katharine; Meredith, Michael; Humphrey, Rita S (1985). More Than Friend: The Letters of Robert Browning to Katharine de Kay Bronson. Waco, Texas: Armstrong Browning Library of Baylor University. p. 41. ISBN 0-911459-06-5.
  9. Currie, CRJ; Herbert, NM, eds. (1996). "Alvington: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean". A History of the County of Gloucester. Vol. 5. pp. 5–14.
  10. Art Finder. "A. Margaretta Burr". London: Artfinder.com. Archived from the original on 4 September 2011. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
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