Robert Burns Statue – New York City, Central Park.
Robert Burns is a bronze portrait statue of Robert Burns by John Steell.
Four versions exist, in New York City (United States), Dundee (Scotland), London (England), and Dunedin (New Zealand).
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The memorial sculpture in Manhattan’s Central Park was cast c. 1880 and dedicated on 2 October 1880.
It was the first statue of Burns to be erected outside Scotland and was a gift to the City of New York from Saint Andrew’s Society of the State of New York and the Scottish-American community.
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Robert Burns was born in 1759, in Alloway, Scotland, to William and Agnes Brown Burnes. Like his father, Burns was a tenant farmer.
However, toward the end of his life he became an excise collector in Dumfries, where he died in 1796; throughout his life he was also a practicing poet.
His poetry recorded and celebrated aspects of farm life, regional experience, traditional culture, class culture and distinctions, and religious practice. He is considered the national poet of Scotland.
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