Thomas Jones Barker
Thomas Jones Barker (* 1815 in Bath , † March 27, 1882 in Haverstock Hill (now London )) was an English painter.
Life
Barker was the son of the genre painter Thomas Barker . The landscape painter Benjamin Barker was his uncle. Barker received his first artistic lessons from his father. Through the contacts of his father, Barker came to Paris at the age of 19 and got a job in the studio of the painter Horace Vernet . Barker studied there for almost ten years and did not return to Bath until 1845. During his almost ten-year stay in Paris, Barker was able to exhibit again and again in the exhibitions of the Paris salons . One of these works was a commission from King Louis Philippe , for which Barker awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honor .
In 1845 Barker returned to Great Britain and established himself as a freelance painter in Haverstock Hill. For the next 30 years he regularly participated in the exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts . From 1849 Barker created his monumental battle pictures, for which he is still known today. Because of these war scenes, contemporaries soon called Barker the English Horace Vernet . The meeting of Wellington and Blucher at Waterloo was written in 1851 , or in 1853 an episode from Wellington's capture of Pamplona . The race on the Corso in Rome is less bellicose, but still highly praised .
His 1863 painting The Secret of England's Greatness hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London .
Between 1870 and 1871, Barker traveled to all the scenes of the Franco-German war in order to, according to his own statements, "see and paint the real thing". The attack by Prussian cuirassiers on Chasseurs d'Afrique near Vionville , Napoleon after the Battle of Sedan and others emerged at short intervals . a.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barker, Thomas Jones |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1815 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bath |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 1882 |
| Place of death | London |