Wright Barker

Wright Barker (16 July 1863 – 10 March 1941), known professionally as Wright Barker, but socially as John Wright Barker, was an English painter in oils. He specialised in painting domesticated animals, hunting, landscapes and portraits, but occasionally he depicted other subjects, such as Greek mythology. After training at the Académie Julian, he produced much of his work in Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire, although he also painted some pictures in the Scottish Highlands and in Poland. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) in 1896. Barler painted portraits of Count Potocki, the Duke and Duchess of Portland, Lord Barnby, the Duke of Peneranda of Spain, and Edward VII's dog Caesar. He also executed a bronze sculpture of the racehorse St Simon. His classical scene of Circe, now in the Cartwright Hall, Bradford, continues to attract comment.