Charles Rousseau Burney

Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1780
Height:
76.8 cm  (30 1/4 in.)
Width:
63.8 cm  (25 1/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    [Museum inv. no.: 50.145.16]

Description

Portrait of Charles Rousseau Burney holding music score (barely legible). The sitter was a nephew and pupil of the celebrated musicologist Dr. Charles Burney. In 1770 he married Dr. Burney's oldest daughter, Esther, called Hetty, whom he had known since childhood. C. R. Burney was a composer as well as a virtuoso musician. He and his wife are reported to have played brilliantly together on the harpsichord.

People as subjects

Burney, Charles Rousseau (1747-1819) (Musician portrait)

Iconclass

48C723
portrait of a musician

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

3821