Charles Henry Harrison Burleigh ROI (1869 – 1956)

Charles Burleigh was a landscape artist and a painter of urban scenes. He was elected to the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI) and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours (RI). He also exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Fine Art Society. His wife, Averil, also exhibited at the RA and the ROI, under the name of Averil Burleigh, as did his daughter, Veronica. All three of them had a distinctive, stylised method to their painting. Works in public collections include: Brighton Front, c.1920, Portrait of an Organist, 1921, The Music Room of the Royal Pavilion, c.1923-4, Brighton Arts Club, c.1930, Lieut. Col. S. Moens, Portrait of an old man (all Brighton Museums & Art Galleries); plus works in The Slade & UCL, London, and in other provincial art galleries.