An Original Handwritten and Signed Letter By Irish Painter Sir Frederic William Burton to Sir Henry Maine. Dated 1880. A letter to Sir Henry Maine about enclosing a note from Prof Flower in case his nephew might need it. Sir Frederic William Burton 1816-1900 was an Irish Victorian painter and curator who was the third director of the National Gallery, London for 20 years from 1874. Burton's best-known watercolours, The Aran Fisherman's Drowned Child (1841) and The Meeting on the Turret Stairs (1864; also known as Hellelil and Hildebrand) are in the National Gallery of Ireland. Size 177mm x 110mm. Condition is good. Mounted on card.