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See also:BURTON, See also:SIR See also:FREDERICK See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1816–f goo) , See also:British painter and See also:art connoisseur, the third son of See also:Samuel Burton of Mungret, Co. See also:Limerick, was See also:born in See also:Ireland in 1816. He was educated in See also:Dublin, where his See also:artistic studies were carried on with marked success under the direction of Mr Brocas, an able teacher, who foretold for the lad a distinguished career. That this estimate was not exaggerated was proved by Burton's immediate success in his profession. He was elected an See also:associate of the Royal Hibernian See also:Academy at the See also:age of twenty-one and an academician two years later; and in 1842 he began to exhibit at the Royal Academy. A visit to See also:Germany and See also:Bavaria in 1851 was the first of a See also:long See also:series of wanderings in various parts of See also:Europe, which gave him a profound and intimate knowledge of the See also:works of the Old Masters, and prepared him admirably for the duties that he undertook in 1874 when he was appointed director of the British See also:National See also:Gallery in See also:succession to Sir W. Boxall, R.A. During the twenty years that he held this See also:post he was responsible for many important purchases, among them Leonardo da See also:Vinci's " Virgin of the Rocks," See also:Raphael's " Ansidei Madonna," See also:Holbein's " Ambassadors," See also:Van Dyck's equestrian portrait of See also:Charles I., and the " See also:Admiral Pulido See also:Pareja," by Velasquez; and he added largely to the noted series of See also:Early See also:Italian pictures in the gallery. The number of acquisitions made to the collection during his See also:period of See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office amounts to not fewer than 500. His own See also:painting, most of which was in See also:water-See also:colour, had more attraction for experts than for the See also:general public. He was elected an associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-See also:Colours in 1855, and a full member in the following See also:year. He resigned in 1870, and was re-elected as an honorary member in 1886. A See also:knighthood was conferred on him in 1884, and the degree of LL.D. of Dublin in 1889. In his youth he had strong sympathy with the " See also:Young Ireland Party," and was a See also:close associate with some of its members. He died in See also:Kensington on the 16th of See also:March 1900.
End of Article: BURTON, SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM (1816–f goo)
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