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‘Mrs Robert Burrows’ c1845
A beautifully detailed portrait highlighting the fashion of the Mid Victorian era.
Mrs Burrows is wearing a pink silk day dress with black net gloves. The blue buttons on her dress and jewellery, compliment her blue eyes
Harriet Batterbee Bowman (Mrs Burrows), was the daughter of an Ipswich Brewer,
Watercolour on paper, presented within a glazed wood frame. Original artists label verso, along with a gallery label for Chantry Fine Art bearing the subject description.
Size to include frame: H43.5cm L38cm Image only: H22.5cm L18cm
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Artist Ferdinand Henry Bischoff was born in 1795 on May 20th in London. He was the son of Frederick Bischoff and his wife Penelope Priscilla Augusta nee Von Mayersbach 1777-1799.
Ferdinand went on to mary Mary Hutin at St James, Westminster in 1820 and they had a son named Charles Ferdinand Bischoff.
Ferdinand exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Academy, and the Suffolk Fine Arts Association, and became a member of the Ipswich Society of Professional & Amateur Artists.
The sitters husband Robert Burrows was an apprentice silversmith, trading with his father Robert Burrows (1782-31) under the name of Robert Burrows & Son. In 1847 Robert took on the family business, trading from a miscellaneous warehouse at 40 Silent Street, Ipswich, selling a variety of articles including watches, cutlery, pianofortes, guns, oil paintings, photography equipment etc. Robert was a pawnbroker and later became liberal Town Councillor, defeated in 1853.
He was a member of the Ipswich Society of Professional & Amateur artists and exhibited at the Suffolk Fine Arts Association held at the New Lecture Hall at the Mechanics Institute in 1850, the Royal A
...cademy and at the British Institution.
Robert was an artist and agent for the London Fire Assurance Co Ipswich, and enjoyed friendships with artists to include Edward Robert Smythe who created a pencil drawing of Robert and his wife Harriet Batterbee Bowman, daughter of an Ipswich Brewer.
Robert had an interest in photography and a variety of his photographs are held at the Suffolk Record Office.
He took up painting fulltime in 1869 from his residence at 9 Norwich Road, Ipswich. He exhibited at the Bury St Edmunds Fine Art Society in 1882.
We are happy to obtain UK and international quotations. Please do not hesitate to contact.Antique Number: SA1100003
Dateline of this antique is Victorian
Height is 43.5cm (17.1inches)Width is 38cm (15.0inches)Depth is 0cm (0.0inches)
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