Cecil Ross Burnett

Cecil Ross Burnett (27 April 1872 – 6 December 1933) was a British landscape artist and portraitist.

[1][3] He specialised in portraits and in mostly rural landscapes, many created near Amberley, Sussex, where he had a cottage.

He worked in oil and watercolour, and was a member of the New Society of Painters in Water-Colours from 1910[2] and of the Langham Sketching Club and the Pencil Society.

[5] In 1898 he founded the Sidcup School of Art; he was its principal for many years.

[1][2] In 1903 Burnett married Alice Theresa Allenberg, from South Africa; they had a son and a daughter and lived in Blackheath, London, where he died on 6 December 1933.