(b. 1765), amateur artist, 3rd. s. of Sir Edward Swinburne, 5th Bt. of Capheaton, Northumb.
1792 - 3 Rome (Jan. 1792), Naples (winter 1792 - 3), Rome (by 1 Apr. 1793)
1797 Naples (Feb. - Jun. 1797)
There were two Swinburnes in Naples in the winter of 1792 - 3, listed as 'Mr Swinburne' and 'Mr Hy. Swinburne'.1 Henry Swinburne (1772 - 1800) is separately noticed, and the first was apparently his cousin Edward.
'Mr Swinburne frequently accompanies us in our morning excursions', wrote John Carr in Rome in January 1792, 'and is of great use, being personally known to most of [the English artists]'.2 'Mr Edward Swinburne', who had previously been in Naples, was noticed in Rome on 1 April 17933 (and Henry Swinburne had also come to Rome by April 1793).
At Naples in 1797 William Artaud was with 'a most able designer of landscape', the younger brother of Sir John Swinburne.4 He was evidently a close friend of Artaud with whom he may have visited Paestum as 'a topographer', with Henry Thomson, Duppa and Reinagle in 1797, sometime before June6 (but Sir William Hamilton had called him Henry Swinburne, perhaps in error7). In 1804, three years after the death of Henry Swinburne, Farington met a Mr Swinburne, brother of Sir John Swinburne of Northumberland, who drew landscape well and had been in Italy where he had found 'that reckoning from the Alps, - it included every character of Landscape in the highest perfection'.5
1. Parker list MSS. 2. Carr letters MSS (J. Carr, 14 Jan. 1792). 3. Forbes jnl.MSS (1 Apr. 1793). 4. Artaud letters MSS (4 Apr. 1797). 5. Farington Diary (12, 13 Jun. 1804). 6. Artaud letters MSS (2 Jun. 1797). 7. ASN E 674 (24 Feb. 1797).