Artwork Title: John Gubbins Newton and His Sister, Mary Newton

John Gubbins Newton and His Sister, Mary Newton, 1833

Robert Burnard

Artwork Title: John Gubbins Newton and His Sister, Mary NewtonArtwork Title: John Gubbins Newton and His Sister, Mary NewtonArtwork Title: John Gubbins Newton and His Sister, Mary NewtonArtwork Title: John Gubbins Newton and His Sister, Mary NewtonArtwork Title: John Gubbins Newton and His Sister, Mary Newton
This unusual and remarkably accomplished painting - quite striking in the precision of its draftsmanship and descriptive detail and in its clarity of tone and color - was long attributed to other artists. There were strong arguments for assigning the work to both the expatriate Swiss animal painter Jacques-Laurent Agasse (1767–1849), who had studied with David, and to the Scottish portrait and history painter John Zephaniah Bell (1793–1833). In preparation for an exhibition in 2001, though, the painting was cleaned and the signature of the quite obscure Cornish artist Robert Burnard was found lurking in the background: "R. Burnard pinxit". (http://godsandfoolishgrandeur.blogspot.nl/2016/10/john-gubbins-newton-and-his-sister-mary.html) The portrait is distinguished for many reasons.... there is nothing remotely like it in English portraiture of the second quarter... (https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Who+was+Robert+Burnard%3F+Angus+Trumble+investigates+the+mystery+of+a...-a0122375140)
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