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Burton, Nancy Jane
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Nancy Jane Burton was born in Ardgour, Argyll on the 10th February 1891. She worked as an animal painter, mainly in watercolour and occasionally oil. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art in 1914 and 1916, taking day classes in drawing and painting and evening classes in lithography. Her occupation during this time is listed as an art mistress. Burton studied under Murray Thomson. She received the Lauder Award in 1924. Burton lived in Aberfoyle, Perthshire before moving to a farm near Tyndrum. In the early 1930s while visiting her sister in Kashmir, she visited Afghanistan and painted numerous water colours of the area. She was close friends of 'Glasgow Girls' artists Kate Cameron and Helen Lamb. Burton is regarded as one of Scotland's leading animal painters of the first half of the 20th century. Burton died in Aberfoyle on the 15th August 1972.
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Sources: the Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture by Peter J M McEwan; Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.
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