Thomas Burke

(b Dublin, 1749; d London, 31 Dec 1815). Irish engraver, active in England. He first trained, according to Carey, in the Dublin Society's Schools under Robert West, moving c. 1770 to London, where he studied mezzotint-engraving under John Dixon. Most of Burke's mezzotints were engraved after Angelica Kauffman for William Wynne Ryland, although other examples included a mezzotint in 1773 of the racehorse Eclipse after George Stubbs for the publisher Robert Sayer. Burke presumably learnt stipple-engraving from Ryland, and in 1775 he gave up mezzotint for this newer technique, engraving many fine plates for Ryland after Kauffman, who according to an obituary of Burke in New Monthly Magazine had 'always preferred him to engrave her designs'. Francesco Bartolozzi is said to have praised proofs of these prints in terms of the 'mellowness, delicacy, power and richness of their effect' (Carey). Burke's Lady Rushout (O'Donoghue, ii) after Kauffman, published by William Dickinson in 1784, is one of his finest prints. The Nightmare, engraved in 1783 after Johann Heinrich F?seli, was so successful that it was reputed to have made

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Burke, Thomas (also de Burgos) (?1710-1776), historian of the Dominican Order in Ireland. He was born in Dublin and ordained in Rome, 1726, becoming Bishop of Ossory in 1759. In 1762 he issued Hibernia Dominicana, published in Kilkenny with a fictitious Cologne imprint. Burke's other works include Promptuarium Morale (1731), Propria Sanctorum Hiberniae (1751), and A Catechism, Moral and Controversial (1752).

Thomas Burke may refer to:

• Tom Burke (Australian politician) (1910–1973), Labour MP for Perth 1943–1955
• Thomas Burke (author) (1886–1945), British author and poet from London
• Thomas Burke (bishop)
• Thomas Burke (Clare politician) (died 1951) Irish farmer, bone-setter, and TD for Clare 1937–1951
• Thomas Burke (governor) (1747–1783), American Continental Congressman and Governor of North Carolina
• Thomas Burke (Irish politician) (1813–1875), MP for County Galway.
• Thomas Burke (judge) (1849–1925), American developer, Chief Justice of Washington Territory
• Thomas Burke (Medal of Honor) (born 1833), U.S. Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
• Thomas Burke (soldier), American Civil War soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
• Thomas A. Burke (1898–1971), Mayor of Cleveland, U.S. Senator for Ohio
• Kerry Burke, Sir Thomas Kerry Burke (born 1942), New Zealand MP and Speaker
• Tom Burke (1875–1929), U.S. Olympic medalist

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