Thomas Barker (painter)

Thomas Barker, occasionally Barker of Bath ( MAY 1767 in Trosnant, Pontypool, Monmouthshire, † December 11, 1847 in Bath ) was an English painter.

Barker was the son of the animal painter Benjamin Barker († 1793) and brother of the landscape painter Benjamin Barker ( 1776-1838 ). Early on got Barker by his father and was painting lessons by these results attentive Charles Spackman Barker on the talent. He took him on as an apprentice and learned Barker copying mainly Dutch masters (including Meindert Hobbema ). But by Thomas Gainsborough presented Barker featured copies ago.

At 23, Barker went to Italy in 1790 and stayed there for three years. Back in Britain he made with his genre pictures at once his artistic as well as financial breakthrough. His paintings (including The gypsy ) were so popular that they were modeled as, for example porcelain in a variety of everyday objects.

He was late to his own style and get him impressive work ( Devil's Table in Hampton Rocks at Bath). In the exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts Barker was actually represented regularly in the years 1791-1829.

Barker had eight children, including four sons, all of whom were also painters: Thomas Jones Barker, Benjamin Barker (1817-1889), John Joseph Barker (1824-1904) and Octavius ​​William Barker (* 1826), later also known as the forger drew attention to himself his father's works.

Works (selection)

  • The sand Girl, 1797, canvas, 152 × 117 cm, Bath, Victoria Art Gallery.
  • The wood collector with dog to 1790-91, canvas, 239 × 147 cm, Raby Castle, Barnard Coll Lord.
  • The woodcutter with dog, 1786, canvas, 236 × 148 cm, London, Tate Gallery.
  • The wood collector with dog to 1790-91, canvas, 236 × 150 cm, Kilkenny, Smithwick Coll.
  • The Artist's Wife, 1803, canvas, 76 × 64 cm, Bath, Holburne of Menstrie Museum of Art
  • In a mill, 1807, canvas, 103 × 66 cm, Oberlin (Ohio ), Allen Memorial Art Museum.
  • Market in Landsdown, 1812, canvas, 104 × 76 cm, London, Victoria and Albert Museum.
  • Self-portrait, 1796, canvas, 76 × 63 cm, London, Tate Gallery.
  • Self-portrait, 1793, canvas, 79 × 65 cm, Bath, Holburne of Menstrie Museum of Art
  • Self-portrait with Charles Spackman, canvas, 132 × 160 cm, Bath, Victoria Art Gallery.
  • Cattle market, canvas, 89 × 188 cm, Cardiff, National Gallery of Wales.
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