made his second tour through Wales accompanied by the Swiss artist Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, who is very likely to have known Barret. Wyndham?ÇÖs Tour through Monmouthshire and Wales published in 1781, started with at the Severn and worked round the Welsh coast to Snowdonia before returning along the Welsh borders. This was a route followed by many tourists and Wyndham?ÇÖs book was the first published guidebook with illustrations of the scenery. Surviving oil-paintings by Barret suggest that he must have made a similar tour, starting in the south and many of his oil paintings are taken from similar viewpoints to those used by Grimm. The Government Art Collection has oil-paintings by Barret of both the Severn and Wye confluence and Cilgerran Castle on the borders of Cardiganshire and Pembrokeshire. There are a number of paintings which may portray scenery in Merionethshire and in Snowdonia Barret produced a number of paintings of Snowdon from Llyn Nantle and Llyn Padarn. Unlike Richard Wilson he did not paint Caernarfon Castle, but he did produce at least five different versions of a painting of Conway Castle. Later Life and Family Around 1770 Barret is known to have been living in Orchard street an extension of Baker Street in London, and he has been linked to the young Anglo- Irish aristocrat and aspiring politician, the Hon. Edward Augustus Stratford. Stratford of Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow (who became Earl of Aldborough)who was developing the land belonging to the City of London Corporation, called the Lord Mayor?ÇÖs Banqueting House Ground. Stratford laid out Stratford Place, a planned cul-de-sac of superior Georgian houses, culminating in a single grand mansion at the end, which is unique in London. Early on Stratford Place was grouped with Portland Place and the Adelphi Terrace in a trio of London?ÇÖs finest showpiece developments. According to a story published in 1783, Stratford had learned of the site from Barret, then resident in Orchard Street, whom he had consulted ?Çÿabout purchasing or building a town house?ÇÖ. As noted in the introduction, in later life Barret became increasingly impoverished. He appears to have been forced to sell the contents of his studio in 1771, shortly before moving out to Westbourne Green. It appears that larger landscape oils were going out of fashion and Barret may have concentrated more on producing watercolours and gouaches for sale. Barret had married Frances Percy in 1757 while still living in Dublin. Four of their children (George, James, Joseph and Mary) also became painters. George (1767?Çô1842) achieved particular notability, as an early member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, where he exhibited prolifically. James Barret succeeded his father as the master painter of Chelsea Hospital and exhibited oils and watercolours at the Royal Academy between 1785 and 1819. George Barrett Senior died in Westbourne Green in 1784. Work with other artists. A feature of Barretts work is that he would often
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