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Burnet, John
(b Edinburgh, 20 March 1784; d London, 29 April 1868). Scottish engraver, painter and writer. He trained as an engraver in Edinburgh with Robert Scott (1771–1841) and also studied at the Trustees Academy under John Graham (1754–1817) in the same city, where he was a contemporary of David Wilkie. In 1806 he moved to London where he greatly enhanced Wilkie’s reputation by producing engravings after several of the latter’s early works. In the same period he also engraved original works, including illustrations to the poems of Robert Burns. He engraved a number of works after Rembrandt for Engravings from the Pictures of the National Gallery, which was published in London between 1830 and 1840 by an association of engravers, and contributed to Cadell’s illustrated edition of Walter Scott’s Waverley novels. As a painter he produced landscape, genre and history works, his most ambitious painting being Greenwich Pensioners Commemorating the Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar (London, Apsley House). Painted in the early 1830s, this was a rather unhappy pendant to Wilkie’s Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Despatch of the Battle of Waterloo (exh. RA 1822; London, Apsley House).
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