Edward Francis Burney (1760–1848)

• Was an English artist.
• Burney was born in Worcester on 7 September 1760.
• He studied at the Royal Academy Schools from 1776.
• He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1780 until 1803.
• His work included historical subjects and portraits of friends and family.
• A portrait of his cousin Frances was engraved as a frontispiece to her works.
• Much of his work was done for book illustrations, including a series for an edition of Milton's Paradise Lost. 

• In the 1820s Burney painted four large watercolours satirising contemporary musical and social life.

• Burney died in London on 16 December 1848, at the age of 88.

• He never married.

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