3-070-965 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

New Associate of the Royal Academy: the late Mr. W. Burges, A.R.A., 1881. Engraving '...from a photograph taken by Mr. Van der Weyde's Electric Light apparatus. For the first time within our long experience, we have to record the painful incident of the death of an artist, newly elected into the Academic body...Mr. Burges, though in good health a few days previously, died on Wednesday of last week from a paralytic attack. Mr. Burges had long been appreciated highly in the Architectural world for his intimate knowledge of the early Gothic and Feudal styles...Beside his labours at Waltham Abbey, among his principal works may be named Cork Cathedral; Worcester College Chapel;...the reconstruction of Castle Coch, Glamorganshire...and his own residence in Melbury-road, Kensington, where he died. But of late years he was chiefly employed by the Marquis of Bute; and the artist's works at Cardiff Castle (Lord Bute's Welsh residence) are very considerable, and have been illustrated by a series of drawings exhibited at the Royal Academy. The massive and severe tower that he added to Cardiff Castle, and which is now its dominant feature, may doubtless be regarded as one of his most important and successful works'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.