Burnet John

Burnet, John, F.R.S., the son of the surveyor-general of excise for Scotland, was born in 1784, and was a fellow pupil of Wilkie at the Trustees' Academy in Edinburgh. Coming to London in 1806 he found employment in illustrating, as an engraver, Brayley's England, and Theobald's British Theatre, and in reproducing Wilkie's Jew's Harp and Blind Fiddler. From 1815 to 1820 he spent in Paris, and on his return worked for the association of engravers, and also for Wilkie. He was a painter of no mean ability, his best productions being The Draught Players, The Humorous Ballad, The Windy Day, and Greenwich Hospital and Naval Heroes, purchased by the Duke of Wellington. He wrote several treatises on art, and died in 1868.