Thomas Stuart Burnett ARSA
Other names: S Stewart
Born 1853
Died 1888
Active: 1870 - 1888
Sculptor
Born in Edinburgh. In 1881 he was staying with the painter, William Geddes at Gowan Brae Cottage, Perth Street, Perth.
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
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Portrait bust
1870
Portrait medallion
1871
Portrait medallion
1871
Portrait medallion
1873
Wee Bobbie
1873
Bust of a gentleman
1874
Mr David Raiker
1874
Alice
1875
At Juniper Green
1875
Mrs Dougal
1876
Andrew Dougal, Esq.
1876
The hunter
1877
The reaper
1878
William Hannah, Esq.
1879
James Wilson, Esq.
1879
John Blair Esq.
1879
The putting-stone
1879
Putting the Stone
1879
Girlhood
1880
Norman M. Henderson, Esq.
1880
Rip Van Winkle
1880
The innocent
1881
William Grubb, Esq., Dundee
1881
The late Thomas Sprot, Esq., WS
1881
Eugene Aram
1881
Baby (The Artist's Daughter)
1881 - 1882
Study of a Florentine priest
1882
The bather
1882
Eugene Aram
1881 (Circa) - 1883
Effie Deans
1883
Mrs Denovan Adam
1883
Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care
1883
Lady
1884
Donald, son of Donald Macdonald, Stroove, Skelmorlie
1884
Edmund Edmunds Esq.
1884
Rose
1884
Thomas Mansfield Guthrie, son of C. J. Guthrie, Esq., Advocate
1885
Lady
1885
Lady
1885
Arthur Edmunds, Esq.
1885
Youth
1885
William Forrest, Esq., HRSA
1885
Rob Roy
1885
The late Rev. Mr Davidson
1885
Anna
1885
Thomas Carlyle
1885
Little Rose
1885
Thomas Carlyle
1885
Marble portrait bust
1886
The late David Jack, Esq., JP
1886
Robinson Crusoe
1886
Effie Deans
1886 (Circa)
Sketch Model of Rob Roy
1886 (Circa)
Eugene Aram
1886 (Circa)
Baby
1886 (Circa)
H.R.H. Albert Victor
1886 (Circa)
Rt Hon. W. E. Gladstone
1886 (Circa)
Bosom friends
1887
The late Robert Riddle Stodart, Esq.
1887
A great-grandmother
1887
The farrier
1887
The Rt Hon. W. E. Gladstone
1887
Part of memorial in memory of the late Robert Bryson, Esq.
1887
Robinson Crusoe
1887 (Circa)
Playmates
1887 (Circa)
A South African
1888
A promising youth
1888
Among the brambles
1888
John Reid, Esq.
1888
James Irving, Esq.
1888
Edmund Burton, Esq., engraver
1888
Head of a young girl
1888 (Circa)
A Florentine priest
1882 (Circa) - 1888 (Circa)
Edmund Burton
1888 (Circa)
Baby
1888 (Circa)
Robert Burns
1889
Portrait bust
1971
Locations
Address 2 St Cuthbert's Place Edinburgh | View on map
1870 - 1873
Address 42 Morrison Street Edinburgh | View on map
1873 - 1878
Address 23 Union Place Edinburgh | View on map
1878 - 1882
Address 2 Annandale Street Edinburgh | View on map
1882 - 1888
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Attended The Royal Scottish Academy Life School
1876 - 1881
Exhibited at The Exhibition of The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Works in Watercolour and Sculpture by Living Artists, 1885
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Twenty-Ninth, 1855
'Thomas Mansfield Guthrie, son of C. J. Guthrie, Esq., Advocate'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Forty-Fourth, 1870
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Forty-Fifth, 1871
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Forty-Seventh, 1873
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Forty-Eighth, 1874
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Forty-Ninth, 1875
'At Juniper Green'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Fiftieth, 1876
'Andrew Dougal Esq.'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Fifty-First, 1877
'The hunter'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Fifty-Second, 1878
'Miniature bust of a lady'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Fifty-Fifth, 1881
'The innocent'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Fifty-Sixth, 1882
'The bather'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Fifty-Seventh, 1883
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Fifty-Eighth, 1884
'David Pryde Esq. LLD'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Sixtieth, 1886
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Sixty-First, 1887
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Sixty-Third, 1889
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Eighty-Second, 1908
'Head of a young girl'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundredth - Centenary Exhibition, 1926
'Baby'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninetieth, 1916
'A Florentine priest'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Fifty-Fourth, 1880
Multiple works
Exhibited at Eighteenth Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1879
'Putting the Stone'
Exhibited at Twenty-Second Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1883
Multiple works
Exhibited at Twenty-Sixth Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1887
Multiple works
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1885
Multiple works
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1886
'Sketch Model of Rob Roy'
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1887
'Playmates'
Exhibited at Royal Academy of Art: The Exhibition of Scottish Art, 1939
'Baby (The Artist's Daughter)'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Fifty-Third, 1879
'The putting-stone' - awarded Sculpture Prize
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Sixty-Second, 1888
'Edmund Burton, Esq., engraver'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1885 - 1887
Exhibited 3 times, average 1-2 works per year.
Won prize The Royal Scottish Academy Life School
1879 - 1880
Awarded Stewart Prize
Institutional and Business Connections
Elected ARSA The Royal Scottish Academy
1883
Received prize from The Royal Scottish Academy
1879
Sources
1881 Scotland Census
2007
Parish: Blairgowrie; ED: 2; Page: 14; Line: 12; Roll cssct1881_100; Year: 1881
Catalogue of the Exhibition of Scottish Art 1939, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1939
p. 166 (501)
Citing this record
'Thomas Stuart Burnett ARSA', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib6_1204296812, accessed 02 Oct 2023]
