John Burnet was a Scottish engraver and painter. He was born in 1784 at Musselburgh and died in 1868. In 1806 he went to London where he illustrated the Novelist and executed large plates of Wilkie's works. He painted a number of large landscapes including 'Greenwich Pensioners' and wrote several books on painting. Research John Burnet
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