New for 2019 this is a large bust of Scotland’s National Bard Rabbie Burns. Measuring 16 inches including base this bust of Robert Burns is cast in bronze resin and finished with a light verdigris over “penny black” wax patination. All casting and finishing work is completed by the sculptor to ensure the highest quality of finish. Attached to the base is an inscribed brass plaque with the legend “Robert Burns” although these can be custom made with lettering of your choice for presentation purposes etc. The statue is priced at £395 plus delivery. Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.
Born in Alloway on the 25th January 1759, Burns is known world-wide for the superb expression, insight and honesty of his work.
The son of a farmer, Rabbie Burns’ education lasted until only his 9th year until required by his father to learn to work the plough.
Despite poverty Burns read as widely as he could and at eighteen discovered the works of poet Robert Ferguson and between tending his father and attempting to run the farm turned his hand to poetry. In 1785 he published his first collection-“Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect” and all 612 copies printed sold within a month. Surviving copies of this “Kilmarnock Edition” are now worth many thousands of pounds. After the publication of his second collectio
n he moved to a farm in Ellisland near Dumfries with his new wife, Jean Armour. However, after his crops failed and with a new baby to care for Burns reluctantly took a job as an excise-man. Over the next few years his poetic works and songs flourished despite his continuing poverty.
In 1796 with worries of debt hanging over him his health began to fail and despite his beloved Jean’s nursing ,died in July of that year.