Rodney Joseph Burn

Rodney Joseph Burn RA (11 July 1899 – 11 August 1984) was a British artist who painted landscapes, portraits and figures and seascapes.

[1][2] During his long career he also worked in America and painted in the Channel Islands and Venice and was elected a member of the Royal Academy in 1962.

[4] After military service in the British army in World War One, Burn entered the Slade School of Art where he studied between 1918 and 1922.

[5] At the Slade Burn won six major prizes, featured in an article in The Burlington Magazine and met his future wife, the sculptor Dorothy Sharwood Smith.

[6] During the Second World War, Burn was among the artists who worked at the Civil Defence Camouflage Establishment based in Leamington Spa.