PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS.
appointment in the Custom-house, and his grand-
father was a well-known chronometer-maker in
Cornhill. His taste for painting was most probably
inherited from his maternal grandfather, an excel-
lent miniature painter; but it was not fostered very
early in life, for, on leaving school, he took a situa-
tion in the Customs, where he remained but a short
time ; he quitted it to follow the professioii most
in unison with his feelings, under the guidance
of Abraham Cooper. R.A.. with whom he studied
for a considerable time. Without attaining to the
highest rank in his peculiar department, that of a
painter of horses and dogs, for to these he chiefly
confined his practice, he was always correct in his
style of work ; while the subject pictures which
he painted, in conjunction with his brother Henry,
were far above mediocrity, both in conception and
treatment. The two brothers were for many years
joint exhibitors at the Royal Academy and the
British Institution. William Barraud died in 1850.
BARRE, De la. See De la Baeb.
BARREBA, Francisco, a Sj.anish fresco-painter, is best known by his eloquent and successful appeal on behalf of liis fellow-artists, upon whom in 1640 the Government wished to impose the taxes leN-ied upon trade corporations. No details of his life are known.
BARRERA, Jacobo de, was a Spanish historical painter, many of whose works, dated 1522, are in the cathedral of Seville. He was a friend and fellow-worker of Covarrubias, and died insane, hot in what year is not known.
BARRET, George, an eminent painter of land- scapes, was bom in Dublin in 1728 (or 1732), and received his first education in art in the Drawing Academy of Mr. West, in that city. Having been introduced by his patron, Mr. Burke, to the Earl of Powerscourt, he passed a great part of his youth in studying and drawing the charming scenery around Powerscourt Park ; and he soon after gained the premium ofEered by the Dublin Society for the best landscape. Barret came to England in 1762, and two years afterwards gained the fifty pounds premium given by the Society of Arts. He had the honour of contributing to the establishment of the Royal Academy, of which he was one of the earliest members. He was a chaste and faithful delineator of English landscape, which he viewed with the eye of an artist, and selected with the feeling of a man of taste. His colouring is excel- lent, and there is a freshness and dewy brightness in his verdure which is only to be met with in English scenery, and which he has perfectly represented. The landscapes of this artist are to be found in several of the collections of the nobil- ity ; but his principal works are in the possession of the Dukes of Portland and Buccleuch. His decoration of the great room at Norbury Park, near Leatherhead, will ever rank among his most celebrated productions. He died at Paddington in 1784.
There are a few spirited and pictm'esque etchings by him as follow :
A View of the Dargles, near Dublin. A set of six Views of Cottages near London. A large landscape, with Cottages. A View of Hawarden Castle ; dated 1773.
BARRET, George, ' the younger,' a son of the artist of the same name, was bom about 1774, and was one of the first members of the Water-Colour Society, on its foundation in 1804, and an exhibitor in its Gallery for many years. In 1840 he published a series of Letters on the ' Theory and Practice of Water-Colour Painting.' He died in 1842, after a long illness. There are several drawings by him in the South Kensington Museum. His brother, J. Barret, and his sister, M. Barret, were also painters in water-colours, and occasionally ex- hibited their works. Miss Barret died in 1836.
BAKKET, Ranelagh. This artist is mentioned by Lord Orford as a noted copyist, who made duplicates of several pictures in Sir Robert Wal- pole's collection, and of others in the galleries of the Duke of Devonshire and Dr. Meade. He succeeded especially in reproducing the works of Rubens. He died in 1768.
BARRI, Giacomo, a Venetian painter and en- graver, flourished about the year 1670. He etched some plates from his own designs, and in 1671 pub- lished a book of some reputation, entitled ' Viaggio pittortsco d' Italia.' He died about 1690. There is a slight free etching by him of the ' Nativity,' after Paolo Veronese.
BARRIERE, Dominique, a French painter and engraver, was bom at Marseilles about the year 1622. He chiefly resided at Rome, where he en- graved a considerable number of plates, in a very agreeable style, after Claude and other landscape painters, as well as other subjects. They are neatly etched in the manner of Stefano della Bella. He died in Rome in 1678. He sometimes signed his plates with his name, Dominiciis Barriers Massiliensis, and sometimes with the cipher which is the mark used by Domenico del Barbiere, and thus mistakes frequently arise, although their styles are extremely different. Among others we have the following by him :
Portrait of Jean de la Valette ; marked D. B. ; scarce A set of six Landscapes. A set of twelve Landscapes ; dedicated to Lelio Ortini. 1651. Seven Views of the Villa AJdobrandini. 16i9. A Landscape, with the Zodiac ; inscribed I'im profert A View of Frascati. Pontayia maggiore nel Oiardiiio di Tifoli, with his cipher. Eighty-foiu- Views and Statues of the ViUa Pamphili. Four; entitled Catafalco e apparaio nella chiesa^ S^c. Sepulchral Monument of N. L. Plumbiui; Dominicut Barriere Gallus, in. ex. del. el scul. Hercules, after a basso-rilievo in the Medicean Garden. A large Plate ; entitled Circum Urbis ^gonaUbus^ ^-c. with many Figures. 1650. Several plates of the History of Apollo ; after the pic- tures by Domemchitio and Viola.
BARRON, Hugh, the son of an apothecary in Soho, was born about 1746, and became a pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds. From the year 1766 to 1786 he exhibited many portraits, which were but poor in comparison with the works of his celebrated instructor. He died in 1791.
BARRON, William Augustus, a younger brother of Hugh Barron, was a pupil of William Tomkins, A.R.A. He gained a Society of Arts premium in 1766, and started in life as a teacher of drawing. From 1774 to 1777 he exhibited landscape views at the Academy, some of which were engraved and published. On receiving a Government appointment he relinquished his art.
BARROSO, Miguel, a Spanish painter, born at Consuegra in 1538. According to Palomino, he was a scholar of Gasparo Becerra, and distinguished himself as an architect, as well as a painter. He was employed by Philip II. in the Escorial, where
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