Burr was born at Poltair House in Poltair, Cornwall. She was the only daughter of Royal Navy Captain Edward Scobell.[3] Scobell also owned a property in London's Dorset Square.[4]
Burr travelled widely for inspiration, and published Sketches in Spain, The Holy Land, Egypt, Turkey, and Greece in 1841.[5] Burr later became a travelling companion of Austen Layard, and painted many watercolours on travels through Egypt and Turkey.[6]Dante Gabriel Rossetti wrote descriptions of her tracings of threatened Italian mosaics in the mid-19th century.[6]
On 18 September 1839, the then Anne-Margaretta Scobell married Daniel Higford Davall Burr at St Marylebone Parish Church.[7] Over the next 15 years, the couple had three sons – Higford (born 20 July 1840), Edward (born 25 September 1842), and James-Scudamore (born 15 January 1854).[3]
After her husband's death in 1885, Burr retired to Venice where she died on 22 January 1892.[8] The couple's English property, Aldermaston Court, was inherited by Higford on his father's death.[9] Higford, who also took the surname Higford (after an ancestor) and was known as Higford Higford, sold the estate to Charles Edward Keyser in 1893.[9]
Works
Burr's works include Interior of a Harem, in Cairo, Holy Sepulchre, in Jerusalem, The Missr Tcharsky, or Egyptian Market, in Constantinople, The Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Cairo (1846), Gateway of a Bazaar, Grand Cairo (1846), and Street Leading to El Azhar, Grand Cairo (1846).[10]
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