Anne-Margaretta Burr Explained

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

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.

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).

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.

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]

External links

• Mr. Burr’s sketches: twelve tinted lithograph plates of fourteen views in Egypt, Jerusalem, Constantinople, Athens…, London, ca. 1840

Notes and References

1. Book: British Archaeological Association. The Archaeological Journal. 55. 1898. Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. London. 390.
2. Book: Clayton, Ellen Creathorne. English Female Artists. 1876. Tinsley Brothers. London. 408.
3. Book: Burke, Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. 1. 1858. Harrison. London. 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. Book: Browning. Robert. DeVane. William Clyde. New Letters. 1950. Yale University Press. New Haven, Connecticut. 370.
6. Book: Rossetti. Dante Gabriel. Fredeman. William Evan. The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Chelsea Years, 1863–1872, Prelude to Crisis: 1871–1872. 2005. Forlaget Samfundslitteratur. Frederiksberg. 1-84384-031-6. 511.
7. Book: White, William. Notes and Queries. 122. 1910. Oxford University Press. Oxford, Oxfordshire. 350.
8. Book: Browning. Robert. de Kay Bronson. Katharine. Meredith. Michael. Humphrey. Rita S. More Than Friend: The Letters of Robert Browning to Katharine de Kay Bronson. 1985. Armstrong Browning Library of Baylor University. Waco, Texas. 0-911459-06-5. 41.
9. Book: A History of the County of Gloucester. Currie, CRJ . Herbert, NM . 1996. 5. 5–14. Alvington: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean.
10. Web site: Art Finder . A. Margaretta Burr . https://web.archive.org/web/20110904100953/http://www.artfinder.com/artist/a-margaretta-burr/ . dead . 4 September 2011 . Artfinder.com . London . 25 May 2011 .