granted her a pension of thirty pounds a year. Life Early Life in Ireland Born in Dublin, the son of a cloth merchant, some time between 1728 and 1732, Barret began his career apprenticed to a staymaker. By 1747 he had started learning to draw at Robert West?ÇÖs academy at George?ÇÖs Lane which was sponsored by Royal Dublin Society. After completing his studies he taught drawing at the Academy. He was a friend of Edmund Burke while Burke was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1757 Burke published A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, and the influence of Burke?ÇÖs thinking can be detected in some of Barret?ÇÖs early paintings, such as the Powerscourt Waterfall. A version of this painting in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool is said to have been painted for Edmund Burke. Barret?ÇÖs Italianate paintings Early in his career Barret produced many oil paintings of classical scenery, often incorporating mythological figures. There is no evidence that Barret ever travelled to Italy and his name does not appear in John Ingamells listing of British Travellers to Italy. Most, if not all, of these paintings appear to have been commissioned for houses in Ireland and Barret does not seem to have painted Italianate or paintings after he left Ireland. Thomas Bodkin considered that the oil paintings of Tivoli in Italy which have been attributed to him, but were more likely to be work of his son George Barret junior. who also produced many paintings with classical themes. However many of these paintings can now be securely attributed to the elder Barret. One source of Barret's earliest landscape paintings is based on the re-working of engravings of classical Italianate scenes of artists by such as Claude Lorrain. A pair of paintings sold in 2013 came from the collection of the Rev. Samuel Madden (1686-1765). Madden established a series of prizes at Trinity College, Dublin, to reward agricultural and artistic enterprise, designed an important landscape garden on the shores of Lough Erne, founded the Dublin (later Royal) Society, and left an important collection of 17th- and 18th-century Italian pictures to Trinity College. These two paintings were based on engravings after two paintings by Claude Lorrain. One of these is after Landscape with a rural dance , which belonged to the Duke of Kingston. The second is a Landscape with Argus guarding Io, purchased by the first Earl of Leicester and still at Holkham Hall, in which Barret has reversed the image in his painting. There are a number of other Italianate paintings showing ruins which Barret probably painted before developing his series of Irish landscapes. Barret's first major patron was probably Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown, who built the Palladian mansion, Russborough House in the southern part of County Wicklow.Richard Cassels was the architect and the house was furnished by Joseph Leeson, who travelled on grand tours of Europe in 1744 and again
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