A wooded river landscape with cattle

Benjamin Barker, the younger British, Welsh

1826

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Benjamin Barker II was an accomplished landscape painter in an artistic family that included his father, Benjamin the Elder (1729-1803), and brothers, Thomas (1769-1847) and Joseph (1782-1809). He also made prints--publishing a set of 48 aquatints in 1824 titled "English Landscape Scenery-- and making watercolors (the latter exhibted at the Royal Watercolor Society between 1800-1831). This oil study demonstrates his admiration for Gainsborough's landscapes of the Bath period (1760-73), a city to which Barker moved about 1783.

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Title: A wooded river landscape with cattle
Artist: Benjamin Barker, the younger (British, Pontypool, Wales 1776–1838 Totnes, Devon)
Date: 1826
Medium: Oil on paper mounted on card
Dimensions: 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (14.0 x 19.1 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Elwes & Hanham, Ltd., 2001
Object Number: 2001.728.2
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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