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Thomas Jones Barker

Thomas Jones Barker ( – 27 March ) was an English historical and portrait painter.

Biography

Born at Bath, in [2] He was the son of the painter Thomas Barker and studied in Paris under Horace Vernet, in exhibited much at the Salon and subsequently at the Royal Academy.

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Probably influenced by Vernet, some of his earliest military paintings were of scenes from the Napoleonic Wars including his Royal Academy piece "Wellington at Sobrauren". In his later life he was known especially as a military painter, and observed on the spot the Franco-Prussian War, although it is unclear whether he witnessed the Crimean War, first-hand.

He did exhibit a number of paintings depicting this war. One of his most famous paintings from the s was "The Relief of Lucknow" completed in The picture which was shown to Queen Victoria in May , contained numerous portraits based on sketches taken by the Swedish artist Egron Lundgren, who had tr