Cecil Ross Burnett was a portrait, figure and landscape painter. He studied under Joseph Hill at the Blackheath and Westminster Schools of Art. In 1892 he entered the Royal Academy schools and in 1895 obtained a Turner gold medal, scholarship and gold medal for landscape painting at the Royal Academy schools’ prizegiving. Burnett was a member of the New Society of Water-Colour Painters and in 1907 he joined the Langham Sketching Club and was a member of the Pencil Society. His works were exhibited at various galleries including the Royal Academy. Many of his landscapes were of areas of Amberley in Sussex where he owned a cottage. At the time of his death at the age of 61 he was principal at the Sidcup School of Art which he founded in 1898. A portrait of Burnett by Mabel Oliver can be seen at the National Portrait Gallery.
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