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Benjamin Barker of Bath (Pontypool 1776-1838)
A wooded river landscape with drovers
Signed and dated 'B.Barker pinxt/ 1807' lower right
Oil on canvas
46 x 68 3/4 in (116.8 x 174.5 cm)
Provenance
Sir John Gladstone, 1st Bt. (1764–1851), Fasque House, Kincardineshire, and thence by descent to his eldest son
Sir Thomas Gladstone, 2nd Bt. (1804–89);
Thence by family descent at Fasque House, Kincardineshire, until offered;
Sale, Christie's, London, 7 May 2008, lot 149;
With John Mitchell Fine Paintings, London, 2008;
Sale, Christie's, South Kensington, 8 July 2011, lot 137;
where acquired by the present owner
Benjamin Barker, the younger brother of Thomas Barker, worked in Bath after the family settled there in 1783. He showed in the Royal Academy, the British Institution and the Society of Watercolorists between 1800 and 1831. Many of his watercolours are in the Museum of South Kensington, and Theodore Fielding has reproduced many of his watercolours in aquatint in his 1824 volume ‘English Landscape Scenery. At the height of his success, Barker was incorporated into many important collections, and hung alongside the likes of Wilson, Gainsborough and Turner. Benjamin West regarded him as a better, more poetic painter than his brother.
- Creator:Benjamin Barker of Bath (1776 - 1838, British)
- Dimensions:Height: 46 in (116.84 cm)Width: 68 in (172.72 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Stoke, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU446311780852
Benjamin Barker of Bath
Benjamin Barker was an English landscape painter. He was the son of Benjamin and brother of Thomas Barker. Called Barker of Bath, he resided at Bath, Somerset and between 1800–21, exhibited occasionally at the Royal Academy of Arts. During 1813–20, he was a large exhibitor of views and landscape compositions at the Royal Watercolour Society. Barker was also an exhibitor at the British Institution. There are three of his watercolor drawings in the South Kensington Museum. Barker died at Totnes on 2 March 1838, aged 62. Thales Fielding engraved 48 of his landscapes in aquatint.
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