Benjamin Barker Of Bath

Description Benjamin Barker of Bath (1776-1838) The Vale Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower left 38 x 48 cm (15 x 18 3/4 in) Provenance: with Spink & Son Ltd. Literature: For another version of this composition by Benjamin Barker see The Old English Landscape Painters by Colonel M. H. Grant, No. 491 (illustrated). condition report Old relining, craqueleure/shrinkage, old retouchings visible under UV light, areas of old overpaint, may benefit from cleaning.

Description Benjamin Barker of Bath (1776-1838) The Vale Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower left 38 x 48 cm (15 x 18 3/4 in) Provenance: with Spink & Son Ltd. Literature: For another version of this composition by Benjamin Barker see The Old English Landscape Painters by Colonel M. H. Grant, No. 491 (illustrated). condition report Old relining, craqueleure/shrinkage, old retouchings visible under UV light, areas of old overpaint, may benefit from cleaning.

Benjamin Barker of Bath (Pontypool 1776-1838 Totnes) A wooded landscape with figures on a track, a bridge beyond signed and dated 'B. Barker pin... 1802' (lower right) oil on canvas 32½ x 42 in. (82.2 x 106.3 cm.) with The Colleton House Gallery, Bath. Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 17 February 1984, lot 18. PLease note the attribution should read 'Benjamin Barker of Bath (Pontypool 1776-1838 Totnes)' and not as stated in the catalogue.

Lot Description Benjamin Barker (Pontypool 1776-1838 Totnes) A wooded river landscape with drovers and their cattle by awatermill signed and dated 'B. Barker pinxt 1807' (lower right, on therock) oil on canvas, unframed 46 x 68 7/8 in. (116.8 x 174.8 cm.) Lot Condition Report I confirm that I have read this Important Notice and agree to itsterms. View ConditionReport Provenance Sir John Gladstone, 1st Bt., (1764-1851) and by descent to hiseldest son, Sir Thomas Gladstone, 2nd Bt., (1804-1889), older brother ofWilliam Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), British Prime Minister(1868-74, 1880-85, 1886, and 1892-94), and by descent at Fasque,Kincardineshire. Fasque Sale; Christie's, London, 7 May 2008, lot 149 (£7,500 to thepresent owner). Literature Possibly 1851 Inventory, Large Drawing Room, '14 Paintings -£75.0.0' View Lot Notes › Benjamin Barker was the second son of Benjamin Barker Snr.(c.1720-1793) and younger brother of Thomas Barker (1769-1847).Benjamin West visited Bath in 1807 and commented that 'The twoBarkers [are] very ingenious;... Benjamin, the younger brother, isthe better landscape painter' (J. Farington, vol.VIII, 10 November1807). Benjamin Barker II concentrated on landscape painting, andmade sketching tours for the material for his pictures in NorthWales, Yorkshire, Kent, Dorset and Devon between 1800 and 1815. Heexhibited his first work at the British Institution in 1806, andexhibited there regularly until 1838, as well as at the RoyalAcademy.

Benjamin Barker of Bath (1776-1838) Benjamin Barker of Bath (1776-1838) Figures with a horse and cart on a country road Black chalk with grey and sepia wash 28 x 22.5 cm (11 x 9 in) John Joseph Barker of Bath (fl.1835-1860) Study of an old peasant woman Pen and ink with bistre wash 18.5 x 14 cm (7 1/4 x 5 1/2 in) (2) Provenance: the former sold at Sotheby's, 16th December 1971; thelatter, with Abbott & Holder Condition report: The former with very slight surface dust, the latter with uneventoning, possibly wash, both under glass