About Albin R. Burt
Lived 1783 – 1842 (aged 58). Albin R. Burt was a painter and engraver.
Albin Roberts Burt (1 December 178316 March 1842) was an English engraver and portrait-painter.
Life Burt began his career as an engraver, having been a pupil of Robert Thew and Benjamin Smith but, finding himself unable to excel in this field, took to painting portraits. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1830 and died at Reading on 18 March 1842. One of his prints represented Lady Hamilton, whom his mother knew when a barefooted girl in Wales, as Britannia unveiling the bust of Nelson.
His nine-year-old son Nelson Burt drowned during the Mersey hurricane of 1822, and is buried at St Lawrence's Church, Stoak.
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British artist (1783-1842)
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Albin R. Burt was born on 1 December 1783 in London.
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Albin R. Burt died on 16 March 1842 in Reading.
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Albin R. Burt was a painter and engraver.
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