| Nancy Jane Burton | |
| Birth Date: | 1891 |
| Birth Place: | Insh, Inverness-shire, Scotland |
| Nationality: | Scottish |
| Alma Mater: | Glasgow School of Art |
| Known For: | Animal paintings |
| Elected: | Glasgow Society of Lady Artists |
Nancy Jane Burton (1891-15 August 1972) was a Scottish artist known for her animal paintings.[1] She is considered one of Scotland's leading animal painters of the first half of the twentieth century.[2]
Burton was born at Insh in Inverness-shire in the Scottish Highlands.[3] [4] She attended the Glasgow School of Art from 1909 to 1915, gaining her diploma in 1914.[4] She taught art at a school in Callander and for a time lived at Aberfoyle, Stirling before moving to a farm at Tyndrum in Perthshire.[2] In the early 1930s she visited her sister in northern India.[3] [2] Originally planned as a six-month trip, Burton's talents as an animal painter attracted a large number of commissions and so she decided to stay and took a house in Rawalpindi.[5] She eventually spent four years in the region, travelling and painting, mostly in watercolour, in areas of northern India and modern-day Pakistan, Kashmir and Afghanistan.[6]
From the mid-1920s, Burton was a member of the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists and won their Lauder Award in 1924, in 1931 and in 1946 and 1953.[4] She was a prolific exhibitor, especially with the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts but also with the Royal Scottish Academy, the Aberdeen Artists Society and the Royal Scottish Watercolour Society.[7] [2] [4] Works by Burton were also shown at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.[4]