Charles Thomas Burt

Huge Victorian Signed Oil Painting Hay Making in the Surrey Horse Cart

Charles Thomas Burt was a Midlands landscape painter. He was born in Wolverhampton and lived in Birmingham most of his life. He was a pupil of Samuel Lines of Birmingham and also a friend and pupil of David Cox, by whose style he was influenced. He exhibited 16 paintings at the Royal Academy from 1850 to 1892, as well as the British Institute, Suffolk Street and elsewhere. Burt was a member of the Birmingham Society of Artists. He painted Highland, farming scenes and Moorland landscapes including Snowdon, Devon, Somerset, Malvern, Yorkshire, Derbyshire and the Orkney islands.