John James Barralet
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John James Barralet (c. 1747 – 16 January 1815) was an Irish artist who spent the later part of his career in the United States.
Life
John James Barralet was born in 1747 to a French Family in Dublin.[1] Barralet had joined two classes at The Dublin Society of Drawing schools aged seventeen and he was awarded premium in 1764.[2][1] He was educated by James Mannin and was awarded prizes for both 'Drawing of human figures and heads' and 'Inventions in designs and patterns'.[2][3] He specialised in landscapes, producing prosaic works. He was lauded for his figures, which were said to give a lively immediacy to his watercolours.[1] His brother John Melchior Barralet was a teacher in London in The Royal Academy in 1770.[4] He also had a brother Joseph Barralet.[3]
In June 1791, his drawings helped Benjamin Simpson win a competition to a design the gardens in Merrion Square.[5]
He exhibited three landscapes at the Royal Academy in 1770, and occasionally exhibited in succeeding years. He was employed in illustrating books on Irish Antiquities.
In 1795 he emigrated to America, settling in Philadelphia.[6] Barralet engraved a few plates, but more frequently produced designs for other engravers to execute.[7] He worked briefly with the engraver Alexander Lawson.[7]
Barralet has been described as "a highly irritable and eccentric individual, very difficult to manage."[7] He is anecdotally reported to have locked his two young sons in a closet so that they would not disturb him while he sketched the French general Jean Victor Marie Moreau, who was visiting Philadelphia at the time.[3]
Barralet died in Philadelphia on January 16, 1815.[7]
References
- 1 2 3 Crookshank, Anne (23 September 2004). "Barralet, John James (1747–1815), watercolour painter". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 1 (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1504. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
- 1 2 Harbison, Peter (2004). "Barralet and Beranger's Antiquarian Sketching Tour through Wicklow and Wexford in the Autumn of 1780". Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature. 104C (6): 131–190. doi:10.1353/ria.2004.0002. ISSN 2009-0048.
- 1 2 3 Raley, Robert L. (1985). "John James Barralet in Dublin and Philadelphia". Irish Arts Review (1984-1987). 2 (3): 19–25. ISSN 0790-178X. JSTOR 20491795.
- ↑ Bryan, Michael; Graves, Robert Edmund; Armstrong, Walter (1886). Dictionary of painters and engravers, biographical and critical. Cornell University Library. London : G. Bell and Sons.
- ↑ "CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE, GARDENS Dictionary of Irish Architects -". www.dia.ie. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
- ↑ Bryan 1886.
- 1 2 3 4 Stauffer, David McNeeley (1907). American Engravers Upon Copper and Steel. Internet Archive. New York: Burt Franklin. pp. 17–18.
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Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Barralet, John James". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
Further reading
- Raley, Robert L. (1985). "John James Barralet in Dublin and Philadelphia" (PDF). Irish Arts Review. 2: 19–25. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
