Cecil Ross Burnett | |
Nationality: | British |
Occupation: | Painter |
Birth Date: | 27 April 1872 |
Birth Place: | Charlton, Kent, England |
Death Place: | Blackheath, London, England |
Cecil Ross Burnett (27 April 1872 – 6 December 1933) was a British landscape artist and portraitist. He signed his work "C. Ross Burnett".
Burnett was born in Old Charlton, Kent; his father, William Charles Burnett, was a banker.[1] [2] He trained at Blackheath School of Art and the Westminster School of Art before entering the Royal Academy School in 1892.[1] [2] In 1895 he won the Turner gold medal and a scholarship for landscape painting, and a silver medal for a portrait from life.[1] [3]
He specialised in portraits and in mostly rural landscapes, many created near Amberley, Sussex, where he had a cottage. He worked in oil and watercolour, and was a member of the New Society of Painters in Water-Colours from 1910[2] and of the Langham Sketching Club and the Pencil Society.[1]
Burnett exhibited at the Royal Academy and elsewhere.[1] [4] He entered works in the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics.[5]
In 1898 he founded the Sidcup School of Art; he was its principal for many years.[1] [2]
In 1903 Burnett married Alice Theresa Allenberg, from South Africa; they had a son and a daughter and lived in Blackheath, London, where he died on 6 December 1933.[1]