This painting is a portrait of Sir John Cordy Burrows by August Schoefft. Burrows served three terms as Mayor of Brighton in the 1850s and 1870s. In the books Dressed in his mayoral robes, the portrait celebrates Burrows as a local politician. He was certainly popular: the post was normally held for a single term,… Continue reading John Cordy Burrows, c1858-59
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