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Frances Maury Burke (American 1861-1933) ( aka “Fanny” Burke ) The Tea Party
Oil on canvas, 35.25 x 28.25/Signed lower right
Take a moment with this painting. Notice what it stirs in you. Not decor, but a story you get to keep looking at. This is the piece people ask about the moment they walk in.
“Fanny” Burke was born in Alexandria, Virginia, the great-great granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States through her mother's side. The Burkes were a prominent Alexandria family and Fanny, who never married, opened an art studio in Alexandria in the 1890s. She was known for portrait and genre paintings, especially her well-executed paintings of George Washington, copies of those by William Joseph Williams (1759-1823). She was painting into the early 1930s and died in 1933. This genre painting, “The Tea Party,” by Burke is a rare find.