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Son of the celebrated Irish artist, George Barret RA (1732-1784),
George Barret Junior was, according to Strickland (pp. 32-33) "one
of the foremost water-colour painters of the English School."
He was a foundation member of the Old Watercolour Society in 1804,
a major exhibitor there and also showed at the Royal Academy. Strickland
again: "In some qualities these [his watercolours] have never
been surpassed, excelling in their effects of atmosphere and brilliant
sunlight, and full of poetic feeling". |