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| <p> Barry, James, (1), </p> <p> a historical painter of the British school, was born at Cork, Ireland, in 1741. He was educated in the school of Mr. West at Dublin, where, at the age of twenty- two, he gained the prize for a historical picture representing the arrival of St. [[Patrick]] on the coast of Cashel. In 1770 he went to England, and exhibited in the [[Royal]] [[Academy]] his Adam and Eve, and the year following his [[Venus]] Anadyomene. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1777, and professor of painting in that institution, but on account of misconduct was obliged to resign. He struggled with his evil genius, poverty, and neglect, and died in the greatest indigence at London in February, 1806. The principal works of this great artist are the series of pictures in the Adelphi. which are best described by himself in his pamphlet, and which he terms a Series of Pictures on Human Culture. </p> | | The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_68350" /> |
| ==References == | | <p> Painter, born in Cork; painted the "Death of [[General]] Wolfe"; became professor of [[Painting]] at the [[Royal]] Academy, but was deposed; died in poverty; his masterpiece is the "Victors at Olympia" (1741-1806). </p> |
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| <ref name="term_23370"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/barry,+james,+(1) James Barry from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | | <ref name="term_68350"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/barry,+james James Barry from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> |
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia [1]
Painter, born in Cork; painted the "Death of General Wolfe"; became professor of Painting at the Royal Academy, but was deposed; died in poverty; his masterpiece is the "Victors at Olympia" (1741-1806).
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