About Benjamin Burnell
Lived 1769 – 1828 (aged 58–59). Benjamin Burnell was a British painter.
Benjamin Burnell (1769–1828) was a British portrait painter. His works include portraits of Sir Jacob Astley (sometime between 1780 and 1817), Harvey Christian Combe and Henry Villiers Parker, Viscount Boringdon (1813). The National Portrait Gallery also contains his chalk drawings of William Holwell Carr (1798) and Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 1st Baronet (1817), whilst others are in private collections.
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Who was Benjamin Burnell?
British painter (1769–1828)
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Benjamin Burnell was born in 1769.
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Benjamin Burnell died in 1828.
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Benjamin Burnell was a painter.
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Benjamin Burnell was British.
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