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Surname	Burn	Alternative Surname
First Name	Robert	Initial of Surname	B
Year of Birth/Baptism		Flourished	1799
Year of Death
Biographical Details	Burn sculpted a marble bust of James Gillespie for the Merchant Company, Edinburgh in 1799. It is a work of extraordinary quality and design for Scotland at that period. Virtually nothing is known about him except that he worked as a marble cutter at Leith Walk, Edinburgh from 1790 until 1816. Literary References: Woodward 1977, vol 1, pt 2, 35-6; Pearson 1991, 14, 19