biografía de Charles W. BURTON (1807-?)

Lugar de nacimiento: England

Direcciones: NYC, 1849; Boston, from 1850

Profesión: Lithographer, artist, and engraver

Exposiciones: American Inst., 1849 (engravings in imitation of mezzotint)

Obra: Boston Athenaeum (View of the Public Garden & Boston Common," 1866, after design by Edwin Whitefield, printed by J.H. Bufford)"

Comentarios: Listed in the 1849 NYC directory as a lithographer, Charles W. Burton drew and lithographed in that year a view of the Bay and City of New York with Brooklyn and Jersey City. In 1850 a Charles Burton, artist, was listed in the Boston Census as a native of England, age 43. Since the latter had a two-year-old son, born in New York, it has been concluded that he was the same man as the Charles W. Burton living in NYC in 1849. Burton was still active in Boston in 1866 when he lithographed a Boston view after a design by Edwin Whitefield (see entry). There has been some confusion between Charles W. Burton and Charles (or C.) Burton (see entry), but there is no evidence to suggest there was any relation.

Fuentes: G&W; NYCD 1849; Stokes, Icon., III, 701, pl. 134; Peters, America on Stone; Am. Inst. Cat., 1849; 7 Census (1850), Mass., XXV, 17. More recently, see Pierce & Slautterback, 182 and fig. 111(repro.)