James Barry

1741–1806 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

James Barry (11 October 1741 – 22 February 1806) 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. Wikipedia

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Works

“Philoctetes on the Island of Lemnos”, 1770 — Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna
“King Lear Weeping over the Dead Body of Cordelia”, 1787 — Tate
“Portrait of a Man, Said to Be John Durham”, 1790 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“The Education of Achilles”, 1772 — Yale Center for British Art
“James Barry; Dominique Lefevre; James Paine the Younger”, 1767 — National Portrait Gallery
“Samuel Johnson”, 1779 — National Portrait Gallery
“Jupiter Beguiled by Juno on Mount Ida”, 1790s — Graves Art Gallery
“Eastern Patriarch”, 1803 — National Gallery of Art
“Portrait of Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Statesman, Orator and Writer”, 1774 — National Gallery of Ireland
“The Death of Adonis”, 1775 — National Gallery of Ireland
“The Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (2 copies)”, 1783 — Yale Center for British Art
“Philoctetes in the Island of Lemnos”, 1777 — Yale Center for British Art
“The Birth of Pandora”, 1797 — Manchester Art Gallery
“Iachimo Emerging from the Chest in Imogen's Chamber”, 1788–1792 — National Gallery of Ireland
“Landscape with a Man Washing his Feet at a Fountain”, 1767 — National Gallery of Ireland
“The Baptism of the King of Cashel by Saint Patrick”, 1800–1801 — National Gallery of Ireland
“The Temptation of Adam”, 1768 — National Gallery of Ireland
“Self-Portrait as Timanthes”, 1780–1803 — National Gallery of Ireland
“King Lear”, 1776 — Yale Center for British Art
“St. Sebastian” — Yale Center for British Art
“Venus Anadyomene”, 1772 — Ulster Museum
“Christopher Nugent (1698–1775), MD”, 1772 — Victoria Art Gallery
“Self Portrait”, 1777 — Victoria and Albert Museum
“Orpheus (painting 1 of 6 in the series 'The Progress of Human Knowledge and Culture')”, 1777–1783 — Royal Society of Arts
“William Hunter (1718–1783)”, 1784 — Royal College of Physicians
“Elysium and Tartarus or the State of Final Retribution”, 1791 — Yale Center for British Art
“The Conversation of Polemon”, 1778 — Yale Center for British Art
“Horatius” — Yale Center for British Art
“Job Reproved by his Friends” — Yale Center for British Art
“Jupiter and Juno on Mount Ida”, 1809 — Yale Center for British Art
“Jonah”, 1800 — Yale Center for British Art
“Temptation of Adam”, 1776 — Yale Center for British Art