A Wooded River Landscape with a Fisherman in a Boat

Benjamin Barker, the younger

1826 · Oil on paper mounted on card · Drawings and Prints

Benjamin Barker II was an accomplished landscape painter in an artistic family that included his father, Benjamin the Elder (1729-1803), and brothers, Thomas (1769-1847) and Joseph (1782-1809). He also made prints--publishing a set of 48 aquatints in 1824 titled "English Landscape Scenery-- and making watercolors (the latter exhibted at the Royal Watercolor Society between 1800-1831). This oil study demonstrates his admiration for Gainsborough's landscapes of the Bath period (1760-73), a city to which Barker moved about 1783.

Artist

Benjamin Barker, the younger

Date

1826

Medium

Oil on paper mounted on card

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Elwes & Hanham, Ltd., 2001