Charles Burns Jr., Oil on Canvas 1874 - Exhibited National Academy of Design

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The son of a prominent Philadelphia publisher and bookseller, Burns was a well-renowned architect as well as a highly regarded … Read more The son of a prominent Philadelphia publisher and bookseller, Burns was a well-renowned architect as well as a highly regarded painter. Burns is recognized as one of the most prominent church architects of the late 19th and early 20th century. His works include over 50 churches as well as a number of Victorian mansions in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
As a painter Burns was known for religious, literary and genre subjects. He exhibited for a number of years both at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and the National academy of Design in New York.

ARTIST: Charles Marquedant Burns Jr.
TITLE: False Imprisonment
SIZE: 30 ¼” x 24 ¼” Outside frame dimensions 36" x 30"
MEDIUM/ SURFACE/ PERIOD: Oil on canvas, 1874
SIGNED: (lower left) CH. MARQVEDANT BURNS**
FLORENCE 1874
LABELS: (verso, stretcher board, handwritten paper label
“False Imprisonment”
painted by Charles Marquedant Burns
17 Walnut St. Philadelphia
lent by Richard S. Mason, Esq.
INSCRIPTIONS:
CONDITION: Excellent
RESTORATION: Cleaned and re-varnished with minor touch-up to three small areas involving less than 1% of the total painting.
FRAME: A gesso over wood cut molding frame with an outer gold relief pattern around a shallow faux-rosewood cove, stepping up to a raised gold relief pattern inner molding.
PROVENANCE: Richard S. Mason, Philadelphia
A South Jersey Collector
EXHIBITION: 1877: The National Academy of Design, NYC
1876: (a watercolor sketch for the work was exhibited at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia) See less