Burnet, JOHN

Burnet, JOHN, painter, engraver, and author, was born at Fisherrow, near Edinburgh, in 1784, and died at Stoke Newington, 29th April 1868. He first became known through his admirable engravings of Wilkie's works. Of his own paintings the best known is the 'Greenwich Pensioners' (1837). He wrote several books on art, the most important being a Practical Treatise on Painting; and he was also author of Rembrandt and his Works (1849), and, in conjunction with Cunningham, of Life and Works of Turner (1852).