Lot 25: JOHN BAGNOLD BURGESS, RA (BRITISH, 1830-1897) Arabs drinking tea in an interior

JOHN BAGNOLD BURGESS, RA (BRITISH, 1830-1897)
Arabs drinking tea in an interior
signed and dated ‘J.B. Burgess 1875’ (lower left)
oil on canvas
36 x 28in (91.5 x 71cm)
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Provenance
with Mathaf Gallery, London.
Burgess was born in London in a family of artists and received art training early on. He began his career by painting portraits and genre subjects and exhibited annually at the Royal Academy starting in 1850. Together with his friend, the artist Edwin Long, he began to travel frequently to Spain and at least once to Morocco. His Spanish paintings were very popular with the public and the critics alike.
From the 1870s his Royal Academy entries included a great number of Moorish subjects.
In 1877 Burgess became an associate member of the Royal Academy and in 1899 was elected a full Royal Academician.