John James Barralet

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John James Barralet (c. 1747 - January 16, 1815) was an Irish artist who spent the later part of his career in the United States.

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Life

John James Barralet was born in 1747 to a French Family in Dublin. [1] Barralet had joined two classes at The Dublin Society of Drawing schools aged seventeen and he was awarded premium in 1764. [2] [1] He was educated by James Mannin and he was awarded prizes for both 'Drawing of human figures and heads' and 'Inventions in designs and patterns'. [2] [3] He specialised in landscapes, producing prosaic works. He was lauded for his figures which were said to give a lively immediacy to his watercolours. [1] His brother John Melchior Barralet was a teacher in London in The Royal Academy in 1770. [4] He also had a brother Joseph Barralet. [3]

In June 1791, his drawings helped Benjamin Simpson win a competition to a design the gardens in Merrion Square. [5]

He exhibited three landscapes at the Royal Academy in 1770, and occasionally exhibited in succeeding years. He was employed in illustrating books on Irish Antiquities.

In 1795 he emigrated to America, settling in Philadelphia, where he died in 1815. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Crookshank, Anne (23 September 2004). "Barralet, John James (1747–1815), watercolour painter" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 1 (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1504. ISBN   978-0-19-861412-8.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. 1 2 Harbison, Peter (2004). "Barralet and Beranger's Antiquarian Sketching Tour through Wicklow and Wexford in the Autumn of 1780". Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature. 104C (6): 131–190. doi:10.1353/ria.2004.0002. ISSN   2009-0048.
  3. 1 2 Raley, Robert L. (1985). "John James Barralet in Dublin and Philadelphia". Irish Arts Review (1984-1987). 2 (3): 19–25. ISSN   0790-178X. JSTOR   20491795.
  4. Bryan, Michael; Graves, Robert Edmund; Armstrong, Walter (1886). Dictionary of painters and engravers, biographical and critical. Cornell University Library. London : G. Bell and Sons.
  5. "CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE, GARDENS Dictionary of Irish Architects -". www.dia.ie. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  6. Bryan 1886.

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