Thomas Jones Barker

Thomas Jones Barker (* 1815 in Bath, † March 27, 1882 in Haverstock Hill (now in London ) ) was an English painter.

Life

Barker was the son of the genre painter Thomas Barker. The landscape painter Benjamin Barker was his uncle. His first art lessons Barker got from his father. Through the contacts of his father Barker came up with 19 years to Paris and got a job in the studio of the painter Horace Vernet. There Barker learned almost ten years and did not return until 1845 back to Bath. During his nearly ten -year stay in Paris Barker was able to issue repeatedly in the exhibitions of the Paris Salon. One of these works was commissioned by King Louis Philippe, for which this Barker awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honour.

1845 Barker returned back to the UK and settled as an independent painter in Haverstock Hill. Over the next 30 years, he regularly participated in the exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts. From 1849 Barker created his monumental battle paintings for which he is still known today. Contemporaries called Barker due to this war scenes soon the English Horace Vernet. 1851 was the encounter of Wellington and Blucher at Waterloo, or 1853 An episode of Wellington's capture of Pamplona. Less warlike, yet highly praised is his The race on the Corso in Rome.

In the National Portrait Gallery in London his painting hangs from 1863 The Secret of England 's Greatness.

In the years 1870 to 1871 Barker traveled all sites of the German- French war in order " ... to see the real and to paint " in their own words. It emerged at short intervals The attack Prussian cuirassiers to Chasseurs d'Afrique in Vionville, Napoleon after the battle of Sedan, inter alia,

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• British Painter
• Member of the Legion of Honour ( severity unknown)
• Born in 1815
• Died in 1882
• Man