(b 1617-18; d London, 17 March 1674). English sculptor. He was apprenticed to Edward Marshall in 1632-3 under the auspices of the Masons' Company of London, which he later served twice as Warden (1668-9, 1673-4). His first known work was the funeral effigy of Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (1646; destr. that year). In 1651-2, when he was said to be 'poore', he submitted designs for Sir Ralph Verney's family church monument, but the commission went to his former master. A bust supplied by John Stone to Sir William Paston was completed c. 1652 by Burman, and he may well have worked on tombs such as that of Sir Edward and Lady Hungerford (c. 1648; Farleigh House, Somerset) that can be stylistically associated with both the Stone workshop and Burman's own later memorials. That to John Dutton (1661; Sherborne, Glos, St Mary Magdalen) is a mediocre imitation of the famous John Donne by Nicholas Stone (i), while Bartholomew Beale and his Wife (1672; Walton, Bucks, St Michael) derives ultimately from an ancient Roman type with busts in hemispherical niches. Burman also made the statue of Mary, Countess of Shrewsbury (1671) and probably that of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1674), both at St John's College, Cambridge.
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