The son of Thomas Burgess of the Maiden Lane Academy, he was a painter and art teacher.
London addresses are given throughout his career: in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden; Kemp's Town Chelsea; Gloucester Street, Queen's Square; Great Maddox Street; Piccadilly; Michael's Grove, Brompton, and finally, from 1797, Sloane Square, Chelsea.
His son, H. W. Burgess, was landscape painter to William IV.
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