Life
1732-1784 [‘The Elder’]; painter and son of staymaker
in Dublin; ed. [?RDS], Dublin; taught drawing in Dublin; emigrated to
England, 1962; succeeded as landscape painter; patronized by Edmund Burke;
master painter to Chelsea Hospital; a son, George Barrett [‘The Younger’],
d. 1842. DNB
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Criticism
Michael Wynne, ‘Reflections on "Art and Oratory"’, Éire-Ireland,
5, 2 (Summer 1970), pp.95-102.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)