MARIE BOURKE : Frederick William Burton (1816-1900) was born in Corofin, Co. Clare, the son of an amateur landscape painter. The young artist enroled at the Dublin Society's schools in 1826 where he studied under Robert West and Henry Brocas. He began his career painting portraits in watercolour and miniature. He met up with the older painter, George Petrie, who brought him on sketching trips all around the west coast of Ireland. Burton created many works as a result of these western travels, his major work being The Aran fisherman's drowned child. The artist was reputed to have made fifty preliminary drawings for the painting comprising sketches he had made of the fishermen and their womenfolk in the Claddagh area of Galway and further west in Connemara. [...] His watercolours of this period show how well he understood and sympathized with the westen way of life.

☐ « The Irish landscape through the eyes of the painter », in Timothy Collins (ed.), Decoding the landscape, Galway : Centre for landscape studies, 1994 — pp. 138-139

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