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ID: 500029666
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500029666
 
Record Type: Person
Barker, Thomas, of Bath (English painter and lithographer, 1769-1847)

Note: Self-taught landscape and genre painter who was influenced by Gainsborough. He is mostly known for his rustic scenes. His most innovative works are "Impressions of Rustic Figures after Nature" (1813), the first one-man collection of lithographs printed in England, and "The Massacre of the Inhabitants of Scio by the Turks" (1825), a fresco painted on the walls of the picture gallery in his home, Doric House in Bath. As an expert on fresco technique, Barker advised on the redecoration of the Houses of Parliament in 1841. Comment on works: Landscapes; Genre

Names:
Barker, Thomas (preferred,V,index,Dutch,NA)
Thomas Barker (V,display,Dutch,NA,U)
Thomas Barker of Bath (V)
Barker of Bath, Thomas (V)
Barker, Thomas, of Bath (V,English-P,NA,U)
Barter, Thomas (V)
Barker, Of Bath (V)
Barker Of Bath (V)
ברקר, תומס, אוף בת' (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)
Bath, Thomas (U)
Barker (LU,U,Dutch-P,NA)
Barker of Bath (LU,U)
Barker, of Bath (LU,U)
Bath (LU,U)
T. Barker (LU,U)
Thos. Barker (LU,U)
thos barker (LU,U)
Thos. Barrke (LU,U)

Nationalities:
British (modern) (preferred)
English

Roles:
artist (preferred)
painter
landscapist
fresco painter
genre artist
printmaker
lithographer
watercolorist
draftsman
copyist
art collector

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Pontypool (Torfaen, Wales, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)
Died:  Bath (Bath and Northeast Somerset, England, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
child of ....  Barker, Benjamin, the elder  
..............  (British painter, died 1793) [500012553]
influenced by ....  Barker, John Joseph  
........................  (British painter and draftsman, 1824-1904) [500006472]
parent of ....  Barker, John Joseph  
................  (British painter and draftsman, 1824-1904) [500006472]
parent of ....  Barker, Thomas Jones  
................  (English painter, 1815-1882) [500007620]
related to ....  The Barker Gallery  
..................  (English gallery, 19th century) [500451854]
sibling of ....  Barker, Benjamin, the younger  
..................  (British painter, 1776-1838) [500020514]
sibling of ....  Barker, Joseph  
..................  (British painter, 1782-1809) [500030895]
teacher of ....  Lawrence, Thomas  
..................  (English painter, 1769-1830) [500022619]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Barker, Thomas, of Bath (I)

Biographies:
(English painter and lithographer, 1769-1847) ..... [VP Preferred]
(British artist, 1769-1847) ..... [WCP]
(British, 1769-1847) ..... [GRLPA]
(British painter, 1769-1847) ..... [BHA]
(British painter, 1769-1847) ..... [PROV]
(British artist, 1769-1847) ..... [WCI]
(British artist, 1769-1847) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(British artist, 1769-1847) ..... [PROV]
(Unknown artist) ..... [PROV]
(English painter, 1767-1847) ..... [IMJ]
(English painter, 1769-1847) ..... [RKD]
(English artist) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
ברקר, תומס, אוף בת' ........ [IMJ]
..................................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
Barker ........ [PROV, RKD Preferred]
...............  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
...............  RKD Artists database (2000-) 4475
Barker, Of Bath ........ [WL-Courtauld]
...............................  Witt Library, Authority files
Barker Of Bath ........ [GRISC, PROV]
.............................  M. Knoedler & Co. records, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2012-)
.............................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Barker of Bath ........ [PROV]
............................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Barker, of Bath ........ [PROV]
..............................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Barker of Bath, Thomas ........ [RKD, WCP Preferred]
...........................................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
...........................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 4492
Barker, Thomas ........ [BHA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRLPA Preferred, PROV Preferred, RKD, VP Preferred, WCI, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
..............................  M. Knoedler & Co. records, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2012-)
..............................  Oxford Concise Dictionary of Art and Artists (1996) 34
..............................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
..............................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 4492
..............................  Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Künstler (1980-1986)
..............................  Witt Library, Authority files
Barker, Thomas, of Bath ........ [IMJ Preferred, PROV, WCI]
.............................................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1999)
.............................................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
.............................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Barter, Thomas ........ [VP]
..............................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1999)
Bath ........ [PROV]
...........  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Bath, Thomas ........ [RKD]
..........................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 4492
T. Barker ........ [PROV]
....................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Thomas Barker ........ [PROV, RKD, VP]
............................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1999)
............................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
............................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Thomas Barker of Bath ........ [VP]
.........................................  Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 29 October 2002
Thos. Barker ........ [PROV]
..........................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
thos barker ........ [PROV]
......................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Thos. Barrke ........ [PROV]
..........................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)

Subject: ........ [BHA, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRLPA, IMJ, PROV, RKD, VP, WCI, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
....................  Fisher, Watercolour Painters (1972)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: nr91009847
....................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1999)
....................  Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 29 Oct 2002; accessed 29 October 2002
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: nr91009847
....................  M. Knoedler & Co. records, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2012-)
....................  Mallalieu, British Watercolour Artists (1986-1990)
....................  Oxford Concise Dictionary of Art and Artists (1996) 34
....................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 4475; 4492
....................  T.B., Waterhouse
....................  Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Künstler (1980-1986)
....................  Waterhouse, British 18th-Century Painters (1981)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q321465
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
....................  Wood, Dictionary of Victorian Painters (1978)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP, WL-Courtauld]
.......... Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 11 Nov 2002
.......... Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
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