John P. Burr RBA (1831, Edinburgh – 1893, London) was a Scottish oil and watercolour painter of genre scenes, portraits, and landscapes.
[1] At the age of fourteen, Burr began painting portraits of well-to-do people in small Scottish towns.
That year, he and his younger brother Alexander Hohenlohe Burr (1835–1899) established themselves as painters in London.
During his career in London, he exhibited 18 paintings at the Royal Academy, 1 at the British Institution, 3 at the Grosvenor Gallery, 35 at the Society of British Artists, 18 at the Royal Water Colour Society, and numerous paintings in other locations in London.
[2] He also exhibited in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester.