
Peter Rees
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Exhibited
(possibly) London, Royal Academy, 1880, no. 340 (as Zehra).
Trained at Leigh's famous academy in Newman Street, John Bagnold Burgess subsequently entered the Royal Academy Schools, where he won a first-class medal for life drawing. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1850, and was a prolific exhibitor until 1896. He also exhibited works at the British Institution and at the Society of British Artists.
A regular visitor to Spain, often accompanied by the Orientalist painter Edwin Long, Burgess also travelled to North Africa, where he produced a number of Moorish and Orientalist subjects, among them The meeting of East and West (Christie's, New York, 29 October 2003, lot 86), Arabs drinking tea in an interior (1875, Bonhams, New York, 4 May 2016, lot 25), and The blue necklace (sold in these rooms, 20 October 2021, lot 37.