William Shakespeare Burton. William Shakespeare Burton was an English genre and historical painter of the Victorian era.
He is now remembered mainly for The Wounded Cavalier. Burton's grandfather was a printer, and his father was William Evans Burton, a comic actor and playwright who found popular success in the United States — while leaving his wife and son behind in London, with little money.
An only child, the younger Burton worked at copying prints as a teenager. The dramatist and critic Tom Taylor was his sponsor and patron.
Taylor helped the teen find work at the magazine Punch, a job designing capitals for illustrations. He was educated at King's College and the Royal Academy School, where he won a gold medal in 1852 for a painting on the subject of Samson and Delilah.
To paint his most famous work, The Wounded Cavalier, Burton was said to have dug a hole in the ground to stand in, so that he could paint the grass and ferns at eye level. The work shows a scene from the English Civil War: a Cavalier courier has been ambushed and wounded, and is comforted by a Puritan maiden. Her jealous suitor, carrying a large Bible, looks on. The painting was shown at the Royal Academy show of 1856, although through a strange set of circumstances. According to Burton's own account, his picture was left in a remote room with its face turned to the wall. The academician Charles West Cope found the picture, bro
He is now remembered mainly for The Wounded Cavalier. Burton's grandfather was a printer, and his father was William Evans Burton, a comic actor and playwright who found popular success in the United States — while leaving his wife and son behind in London, with little money.
An only child, the younger Burton worked at copying prints as a teenager. The dramatist and critic Tom Taylor was his sponsor and patron.
Taylor helped the teen find work at the magazine Punch, a job designing capitals for illustrations. He was educated at King's College and the Royal Academy School, where he won a gold medal in 1852 for a painting on the subject of Samson and Delilah.
To paint his most famous work, The Wounded Cavalier, Burton was said to have dug a hole in the ground to stand in, so that he could paint the grass and ferns at eye level. The work shows a scene from the English Civil War: a Cavalier courier has been ambushed and wounded, and is comforted by a Puritan maiden. Her jealous suitor, carrying a large Bible, looks on. The painting was shown at the Royal Academy show of 1856, although through a strange set of circumstances. According to Burton's own account, his picture was left in a remote room with its face turned to the wall. The academician Charles West Cope found the picture, bro
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