James Barry:80 Drawings and Prints

James Barry (1741 – 1806) was Irish born 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. He is noted for being one of the earliest romantic painters working in Britain, and one of the most important Irish Neoclassical artists.

Largely a self-taught artist, Barry in 1763 attracted the patronage of his Irish compatriot Edmund Burke, who funded Barry’s stay in Italy from about 1766 to 1771 to s...