Painter in oil, born in North Walsham, Norfolk, whose first wife was the artist Elizabeth Crampton-Gore, their daughter being the painter Georgina Saunders. Burton was mainly self-taught, although he had some lessons in the mid-1940s from his father-in-law William Gore. Travelled extensively through India, Singapore and Australia, where he exhibited as Angelo Perini. Turner, Seago, Montague Dawson and William Russell Flint influenced Burton’s style. He was noted for his marine paintings and for views of East Anglia, where he lived much of his life, dying at Ramsey, Essex. Showed with RSMA, at Guildhall and elsewhere and had many paintings reproduced as prints; Evening Gold and Eventide, scenes at West Mersea, were among the most popular prints of the late 1960s.