John Burnet Hand Numbered Limited Edition Print on Paper :"The Greenwich Pensioners Commemorating Trafalgar"
Title: The Greenwich Pensioners Commemorating Trafalgar
Dimensions (W x H ): Paper Size: 34 x 22 in | Image Size: 34 x 22 in
Edition | Medium: Each print is hand numbered, accompanied by a certificate signed by the Master Printer and is numbered to match the print. The editions are limited to 1880 copies. |
This Gouttelette print on paper is published with light-fast inks to BS1006 Standard onto acid-free calcium carbonate buffered stock, mould-made from 100% cotton and sourced from environmentally conscious paper suppliers. This product is exclusive to Rosenstiels.
About the Art: Superior Edition
About the Artist:
Burnet was born in Edinburgh, 20 March 1784. Burnet 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.
Burnet died in London, 29 April 1868.
