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James Barry

1741

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James Barry was an Irish painter, best remembered for his six-part series of paintings entitled The Progress of Human Culture in the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts in London. Because of his determination to create art according to his own principles rather than those of his patrons, he is also noted for being one of the earliest romantic painters working in Britain, though as an artist few rated him highly until the fully comprehensive 1983 exhibition at the Tate Gallery led to a reassessment of this "notoriously belligerent personality", who emerged as one of the most important Irish artists. He was also notable as a profound influence on William Blake.

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Artworks (15)

The Angelic Guards

1808 · Etching and engraving; fourth state of four

Plate: 29 1/8 × 19 11/16 in. (74 × 50 cm) Sheet: 30 7/16 × 20 3/8 in. (77.3 × 51.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Divine Justice

1808 · Etching and engraving; final published state

Plate: 29 1/8 × 19 7/8 in. (74 × 50.5 cm) Sheet: 37 in. × 25 1/8 in. (94 × 63.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pandora

1804 · Engraving in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 63 × 91.7 cm (24 13/16 × 36 1/8 in.); Plate: 63 × 91.8 cm (24 13/16 × 36 3/16 in.); Sheet: 64.4 × 93.7 cm (25 3/8 × 36 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Milton Dictating to Ellwood the Quaker

1804 · Etching and engraving with some aquatint on ivory wove paper

Plate: 57.8 × 42.3 cm (22 13/16 × 16 11/16 in.); Sheet: 67.4 × 52.6 cm (26 9/16 × 20 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Eastern Patriarch, from the first issue of Specimens of Polyautography

1803 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper, tipped onto mount with aquatint border in gray on cream wove paper

Image/primary support: 23 × 31.7 cm (9 1/16 × 12 1/2 in.); Secondary support: 37.5 × 48.9 cm (14 13/16 × 19 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Thames, or the Triumph of Navigation

1792 · Etching with engraving; second state of five

Plate: 16 5/16 × 19 7/8 in. (41.5 × 50.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

De bekroning van de winnaars te Olympia

1792 · etching on paper, ink

height: 575 cm, width: 970 cm

Rijksmuseum

The Thames, or The Triumph of Navigation

1791 · Etching with engraving on cream laid paper

14.7 × 50.5 cm (5 13/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

A Grecian Harvest-Home, or Thanksgiving to the Rural Deities, Ceres, Bacchus, etc.

1791 · Etching and engraving; unrecorded alternate third state of four

Sheet: 16 1/8 × 19 13/16 in. (41 × 50.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Orpheus Instructing a Savage People in Theology and the Arts of Social Life

1791 · Etching and engraving; second state of three

Plate: 16 5/16 × 19 13/16 in. (41.5 × 50.4 cm) Sheet: 16 5/8 × 19 15/16 in. (42.3 × 50.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Conversion of Polemon

1778 · Etching with engraving and roulette and traces of aquatint; ninth state of nine

Plate: 22 1/2 × 29 7/16 in. (57.2 × 74.8 cm) Sheet: 24 13/16 × 32 3/16 in. (63 × 81.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Job Reproved by His Friends

1777 · Etching over traces of aquatint; third state of five

Plate: 22 1/2 × 30 1/16 in. (57.2 × 76.3 cm) Sheet: 25 11/16 × 35 7/16 in. (65.2 × 90 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Study for Commerce or the Triumph of the Thames

1767 · Pen and brown ink over red and black chalk on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

31.4 × 48.2 cm (12 3/8 × 19 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Antique Mosaic in the Barberini Palace

1761 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray and brown wash, on ivory laid paper

25.4 × 28.4 cm (10 × 11 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Head of Neptune

1700 · Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash and traces of graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper

11.2 × 27.7 cm (4 7/16 × 10 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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