George BARKER

George BARKER
1858
1911
Exh 1892-1908

Born 25 May 1858 at Wolverhampton, the artist exhibited two paintings at Birmingham in a RBSA exhibition that indicates his having visited in Cornwall, possibly in 1895 (Bednar). These were Church Lane, Newlyn (1896) and The Lizard Point from Kynance (1897). He worked as a sub-postmaster in Birmingham, and subsequently died there on 19 May, 1911, age 53 (GRO).

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media

Watercolour

works and access

Works include: Church Lane, Newlyn (1896); The Lizard Point from Kynance (1897); Newquay (1890), monogrammed signature on w/c.

exhibitions

B (13)

RHA (4)

RBSA

 

references

Bednar

Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall;

Johnson & Greutzner (1975) Dictionary of British Artists

RBSA Exhibition records

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