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Jessie Sarah Burnett (28 January 1872 - 15 January 1965) was a Scottish painter.

Life
Her father was George Alexander Rainy Burnett (8 August 1843 - 9 March 1920) from Kintore in Aberdeenshire. He was a seed and corn merchant.

Her mother was Ann Forsyth (born 1845) in Westminster, London. She was the daughter of William Forsyth (born 1807) from Banff.

George's occupation as a merchant meant that he was often travelling. He married Ann Forsyth on 27 September 1870 in Westminster. Jessie Sarah Burnett was born in Westminster in early 1872. Her sister Lilly was born in Hackney in 1877.

Jessie Sarah stayed in London going to the Royal Female School of Art, but moved with her family to Hull around 1900.

On the death of her father, both Jessie Burnett and her sister Lilly Burnett both moved to Scotland settling in two homes in Broughty Ferry, Dundee.

Art
Jessie went to the Royal Female School of Art. She won the South Kensington scholarship of £20 at the Royal Female School of Art in 1893. This meant she could train to be an art teacher. From the Glasgow Herald of 12 October 1895: Among those who have won scholarships is a Scottish student, Miss Jessie Sarah Burnett, who has been awarded a Government local scholarship of £20, tenable for three years.

She became a teacher at the Royal Female School of Art in London.

Her father moved again, this time going to Sculcoates in Hull. Jessie and the family also moved there. In 1900 she was an art teacher at Hull Christian Institute.

She exhibited in the Hull Corporation Art Gallery in 1905: Miss J. S. Burnett, in. No. 217, submits a careful and meritorious still life study. For subject she has massed together some winter cherries and the silvery discs of the spent seed pods known as "Honesty," presenting them in conjunction with number of old books. The "Honesty" might have been, more transparent, and the winter cherries are rather too sombre in tone, but there is no denying the ingenuity and success with which Miss Burnett treated her old books, and the other accessories incidental to the composition.

Death
She died on 15 January 1965 at 6 Taymouth Place, Broughty Ferry, Dundee.