George I Barret

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BARRET George I Wooded Landscape With A Lake, Anglers In The Foreground

Auction House:
Christie's / Dec 6, 2011
Estimate:€174,418.64 - €290,697.73
Price:€267,649.38

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George I Barret - An Italianate Wooded River Landscape

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Auction: Christie's - Jun 5, 2013- New York

Lot number: 48
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George Barret, R.A. (Dublin 1728/31-1784 London) An Italianate wooded river landscape with bathers, peasants and ruins; and An Italianate river landscape with travelers, revelers and a waterfall oil on canvas 42¾ x 55 in. (108.6 x 143.9 cm.); 42¼ x 56½ (107.3 x 143.5 cm.) a pair (2) Almost certainly in the collection of the Rev. Samuel Madden (1686-1765) and by descent. Samuel Madden was an enlightened clergyman who established a series of prizes at Trinity College, Dublin, to reward agricultural and artistic enterprise, designed an important landscape garden on the shores of Lough Erne, founded the Dublin (later Royal) Society, and left an important collection of 17th- and 18th-century Italian pictures to Trinity College. He would almost certainly have known Barret through the Dublin Society before Barret left for England in 1763. The present works reveal Barret's keen interest in engravings: they are based on prints after two paintings by Claude Lorrain, Landscape with a rural dance, which entered the collection of the Duke of Westminster in the early 19th century and has been on loan for many years at the National Gallery of Northern Ireland, Belfast; and Landscape with Argus guarding Io, purchased by the first Earl of Leicester and still at Holkham (see M. Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Paintings, Critical Catalogue, New Haven, 1961, pp. 471-472, no. 208; pp. 240-241, no. 86, fig. 164.).

George I Barret - A View Of The Thames From The Queen's Terrace, Richmond Hill, London

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Auction: Christie's - Dec 5, 2012- London

Lot number: 221
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George Barret, R.A. (Dublin 1728/32-1784 London) A view of the Thames from the Queen's Terrace, Richmond Hill, London oil on canvas 38¼ x 55 in. (97.2 x 139.8 cm.) with The Rosenbach Galleries, Philadelphia. D.H. Farr, New York, 1936, and by descent. Purchased by the current owner in 2005. THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN One of the outstanding landscape painters of his generation, George Barret moved to London from his native Dublin in c. 1763 to take advantage of the greater potential for patronage available in the metropolis. He first came to public attention in London when he exhibited his View of the Waterfall at Powerscourt and View in the Dargle at the Society of Artists in 1764. He soon established a considerable reputation for himself, with a correspondingly impressive clientele drawn from the upper echelons of society, including the Dukes of Portland and Buccleuch. His work was compared favourably to that of his contemporary Richard Wilson, who was considered the preeminent British landscape painter. Barret's ability and status were further recognised when he was appointed one of the founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768. Richmond became an increasingly fashionable place to live in the 18th century and this magnificent view, looking north-west from Richmond Hill, shows a number of the most distinguished houses that were built as a result. On the far right is Doughty House, occupied by Sir William Richardson in the mid-18th Century, but later named after Elizabeth Doughty (d. 1826) who lived there from 1786, and subsequently acquired in the 19th century by Sir Francis Cook. To the left of Doughty House is No. 3 The Terrace with its pedimented facade, which was built in 1769 for the playing card manufacturer Christopher Blanchard, most probably by Sir Robert Taylor. Slightly lower down the hill is the house built by the brewer Edward Collins in 1765, as it looked before it was rebuilt in 1796, which became known as Lansdowne House when it was owned by the Marquess of Lansdowne in the 19th century. In the distance, along the river, is Cholmondeley House, built by George, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley, in circa 1740, and later purchased by William, 4th Duke of Queensberry, in 1780. The bathing house of Trumpeter's House, or Trumpeting House as it was known in the 18th century, can be seen to the left of Cholmondeley House, after which is Asgill House which had been built by Sir Robert Taylor in 1758 for the banker and Lord Mayor of London, Sir Charles Asgill. This panoramic view, of which other versions exist, showcases Barret's skill at accurate topographical representation and his remarkable ability at rendering verdant nature and dramatic light effects. It was landscapes such as this that prompted Samuel Redgrave to praise Barret's representation of 'English Scenery in its true freshness and richness, excelling in the verdure peculiar to Spring'.

George I Barret - A Mountainous River Landscape; And A Ruined Castle In A Wooded Landscape

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Auction: Christie's - May 1, 2012- London

Lot number: 273
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George Barret, R.A. (1728-1784) A mountainous river landscape; and A ruined castle in a wooded landscape (illustrated) watercolour and bodycolour, unframed 15¾ x 19¾ in. (40 x 50.2 cm.) a pair (2) E.J. Eason, 1908. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 14 November 1991, lot 94, where purchased by the present owner.

George I Barret - Wooded Landscape With A Lake, Anglers In The Foreground

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Auction: Christie's - Dec 6, 2011- London

Lot number: 29
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George Barret, R.A. (Dublin 1728-1784 London) Wooded landscape with a lake, anglers in the foreground oil on canvas 49½ x 61 in. (125.8 x 155 cm.) Senator Edward Augustine McGuire (1901-1992), and by descent to his son, Edward McGuire (1932-1986), and by descent to the present owner. THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN George Barret, who was born in Dublin and studied at the Dublin Society Schools, had already established a reputation for himself as among the most talented of contemporary landscape artists in Ireland, when he decided to move to London in around 1763, in order to further his artistic career. Among his early patrons in Ireland he counted some of the most important and influential figures of the day including Edward Wingfield (1729-64), 2nd Viscount Powerscourt, of Powerscourt, and Joseph Leeson (1711-83), 1st Earl of Milltown, of Russborough, who were instrumental in introducing him to a wider circle of patrons in both Ireland and later England. From early in his career Barret was deeply influenced by the natural scenery of Ireland. He was particularly inspired by the rugged and wild scenery that he found in the Dargle river valley, running through Powerscourt demesne, and the awe-inspiring Powerscourt waterfall, which he studied and painted frequently under the patronage of Viscount Powerscourt in the 1750s. Once in London Barret soon established himself in the competitive artistic world of the capital taking advantage of the public exhibitions available to artists to demonstrate his ability. The 'Large Landscape with Figures' which he exhibited at the Free Society exhibition in 1764 was received with much acclaim and won for him the first premium of 50 guineas. Such public success opened the doors of aristocratic patronage (the 1764 picture was bought later that year by the Marquess of Rockingham for 100 guineas) and Barret's work was soon vying with that of his fashionable English contemporary Richard Wilson. Barret's commercial success in England was reflected in his increasingly elevated position in the hierachy of artistic London; elected to the Chamber of the Society of Artists in 1764, he was later - in 1768 - one of the founding members of the Royal Academy, where he was to exhibit his works until 1782. This painting formed part of the notable collection of Edward Augustine McGuire (1901-1992), who became a Fine Gael senator in 1948. Politician, sportsman, artist and connoisseur, McGuire is perhaps best known as the proprietor and chairman of the Dublin department store Brown Thomas, which he took over the management of in the mid-1930s. He acquired Newton Park, Blackrock, Co. Dublin in 1946, which he filled with furniture, silver, porcelain and seventeenth and eighteenth century European paintings. When McGuire sold Newton Park in 1976 the contents were dispersed in a collection sale at Christie's. This painting was given to McGuire's son, Edward McGuire (1932-1986), celebrated Irish portraitist, still-life artist and bird painter.

George I Barret - Rocky River Landscape With Figures

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Auction: Adams - Oct 11, 2011- Dublin

Lot number: 278
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GEORGE BARRET (c.1732-1784) Rocky River Landscape with Figures Oil on canvas 67 x 89cm Provenance: Pyms Gallery, London Exhibited: Grosvenor House Art and Antiques Fair, London, June 2003, illustrated in the Fair Handbook Seemingly quite consciously, George Barret explored several of the different branches of landscape painting and appeared to respond in paint to the theoretical debates about their various merits. His earliest works, such as the Italianate Landscape (NGI), are in a light rococo style influenced by Francesco Zuccarelli, but his direct engagement with the scenery of County Wicklow and possibly his encounter with the thoughts of Edmund Burke saw Barret respond increasingly to elements of the Sublime in nature. This is a typical example of Barret's work in a more restrained idiom illustrating marked chromatic subtlety and is closely related to another example by the artist which was recently sold at Christie's (16 December 2010, lot 150). To the right, in a motif that Barret often favoured, two figures hastily depart the scene.