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Description: | Robert Burns (1759-96) Scotland's National Poet was born in a small thatched cottage in Alloway, Ayrshire, the son of a market gardener who feued 7 acres locally. During a short period the farmer poet composed a wealth of songs and poems. He died in Dumfries of heart disease aged only 37 years.
This painting in the possession of the Burns Monument Trust was presented to them by Chas. R. Cowie of Glasgow.
This oil painting of the Poets birthplace in Alloway by D.O. Hill, RSA, was completed about 1836 over 70 years after the Burnes family left. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1830-01-01 - 1840-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | 'Burns Cottage, interior'; painting in o | Go to resource |
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