Anne-Margaretta Burr

[4] Burr travelled widely for inspiration, and published Sketches in Spain, The Holy Land, Egypt, Turkey, and Greece in 1841.

[6] Dante Gabriel Rossetti wrote descriptions of her tracings of threatened Italian mosaics in the mid-19th century.

[6] On 18 September 1839, the then Anne-Margaretta Scobell married Daniel Higford Davall Burr at St Marylebone Parish Church.

[3] After her husband's death in 1885, Burr retired to Venice where she died on 22 January 1892.

[8] The couple's English property, Aldermaston Court, was inherited by Higford on his father's death.

Gateway of a Bazaar, Grand Cairo watercolour by Anne-Margaretta Burr (1840)