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The Origin of Painting Wall Art
ART BY: Edward Francis Burney
The Origin of Painting Wall Art
ART BY: Edward Francis Burney
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About this artwork
The Origin of Painting is a pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash by Edward Francis Burney (1760–1848), dated 1800. The artist is catalogued as English. The original is held by the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the file offered here measures 1978 × 1390 px (0.3 MB). You will find it among Drawings and Neoclassicism, in landscape format. Archive Lane holds 144 works by Edward Francis Burney, an English artist.
Edward Francis Burney was an English painter. His middle name is sometimes given as "Francisco" or "Francesco".
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Edward Francis Burney →
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