James Moulton Burfield
James Moulton Burfield (* 1845 in Hastings , East Sussex , † 8. May 1888 in Sussex ) was an English genre painter of Neorokoko .
Life
Burfield, son of the coal merchant, brewery and ship owner Thomas James Breeds Burfield (1810-1865) and his wife Kate, née Letterman (1809-1887), was baptized on September 4, 1845 in Hastings. He lived as a genre painter in London , where he exhibited at the British Institution in 1865 and repeatedly at the Royal Academy of Arts between 1869 and 1883 . Burfield specialized in depicting courtly scenes from the Rococo period . He lived for a long time in Düsseldorf , where he exhibited in the 1870s, for example in the Bismeyer & Kraus salon . He had a formative influence on his compatriot Walter Dendy Sadler , who also worked in Düsseldorf.
literature
- Burfield, James M. In: Ulrich Thieme (Ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 243 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- James M. Burfield , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- James Moulton Burfield , genealogical data sheet on wikitree.com
- James Moulton Burfield , Auction Results on artnet .com
Individual evidence
- ^ Parish Register - St. Clement's Church, Hastings, Sussex
- ↑ Düsseldorfer Volksblatt , edition of March 14, 1872, No. 32 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf (1871), p. 25 ( digitized version )
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SURNAME | Burfield, James Moulton |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English neo-rococo genre painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | baptized September 4, 1845 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hastings , East Sussex |
DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1888 |
Place of death | Sussex |