Neville Northey Burnard
Born 11 October 1818
Died 27 November 1878
Active: 1848 - 1873
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor
Born at Penpont, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. He was the son of George, a stonemason and was initially his father's mortar-boy. After initial success, from the late 1860s Burnard neglected his career and took to drink. He returned to Cornwall c.1875 and wandered the countryside offering drawings in return for food and lodgings. He died in Redruth workhouse.
Wealth at death: £50 0s. 0d.
Probate date: 1879
Works
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Bust of Charles William Peach, Esq., FR, PSE
The Prince of Peace
1851
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Forty-First, 1867
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Fourth, 1852
'Marble bust of Beethoven'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Seventh, 1855
p.55
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1848 - 1873
Exhibited 11 times, average 2 works per year.
Exhibited at Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations (London), 1851
1851
Personal and Professional Connections
Studio assistant to William Behnes
Either assistant or pupil
Studio assistant to Edward Hodges Baily
Studio assistant to William Calder Marshall
Studio assistant to John Henry Foley
Studio assistant to Henry Weekes
1837 (Circa)
Descriptions of Practice
Listed under Sculptors Post Office London Directory, 1851 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
Listed under Sculptors Post Office London Directory, 1860 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
Sources
A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851
2009
pp. 170-3
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Annette Burnard and Annette Peach, ‘Burnard, Neville Northey (1818–1878)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4048, accessed 23 Oct 2010]
Post Office London Directory, 1851 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1851
p. 1364
Post Office London Directory, 1860 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1860
p. 1803
The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Seventh, 1855
1855
p.55
Citing this record
'Neville Northey Burnard', 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=msib7_1206624359, accessed 21 Mar 2023]
