Artist. Born in Dumfries, Thorburn painted miniatures, specialising in portraits of the aristocracy. He is known to have worked for Queen Victoria. His business suffered from the introduction of photography and he turned to painting portraits.
His son was the noted ornithological illustrator Archibald Thorburn (1860 - 1935).
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