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Benjamin Barker (1776–1838), was an English landscape painter.
Barker was the son of Benjamin and brother of Thomas Barker, called ‘Barker of Bath,’ resided at Bath, Somerset and between 1800 and 1821 exhibited occasionally at the
Benjamin Barker (1776–1838), was an English landscape painter.
Barker was the son of Benjamin and brother of Thomas Barker, called ‘Barker of Bath,’ resided at Bath, Somerset and between 1800 and 1821 exhibited occasionally at the Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its purp ...
. During the years 1813–20 he was a large exhibitor of views and landscape compositions at the Watercolour Society
Watercolor (American English) or watercolour ( British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back t ...
. He was also an exhibitor at the British Institution
The British Institution (in full, the British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom; founded 1805, disbanded 1867) was a private 19th-century society in London formed to exhibit the works of living and dead artists; it w ...
. There are three of his watercolour drawings in the South Kensington Museum
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west.
Etymology
The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþa ...
. He was an artist of some skill and taste, but little power or originality. He died at Totnes
Totnes ( or ) is a market town and civil parish at the head of the estuary of the River Dart in Devon, England, within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is about west of Paignton, about west-southwest of Torquay and ...
after a lingering illness, 2 March 1838, aged 62. Thales Fielding
Thales Fielding (1793–1837) was an English watercolour painter.
Life
Fielding was the third son of Nathan Theodore Fielding, and like his brothers is mainly known as a painter in watercolours. He was an associate exhibitor of the Royal Socie ...
engraved forty-eight of his landscapes in aquatint.
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* 1776 births 1838 deaths 18th-century English painters English male painters 19th-century English painters English landscape painters Artists from Bath, Somerset 19th-century English male artists 18th-century English male artists {{England-painter-stub