Bryson Burroughs
1869-1934
Bryson Burroughs was American painter and curator. He was born in 1869 in the Boston suburb of Hyde Park, Massachusetts, USA. He is remembered as a curator of painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1909-34), where he discovered and acquired important works, such as ‘Harvesters’ (1565) by Pieter Brueghel.
While still young, he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where he later took art classes at the Cincinnati Museum. In 1889, Burroughs moved to New York City and enrolled in the Art Students League where he studied under Kenyon Cox and H. Siddons Mowbray. After receiving a Chanler Scholarship in 1890, the artist spent the next five years in Europe.
