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Thomas Jones BARKER

(1815 - 1882)

Artist

Biography & links to further info to follow up

• Wikipedia: Thomas Jones Barker.
• ArtUK: Thomas Jones Barker
• Wikiart: Thomas Jones Barker.
• AVictorian: Thomas Jones Barker.
• Ulrich Keller, The Ultimate Spectacle, refs to Thomas Jones Barker.
• JWM Hichberger, Images of the Army, refs to Thomas Jones Barker, pp.51 - 2, 56 - 8, 61 -2, 90..
• Harrington, Peter, 'The Defence of Kars: Paintings by William Simpson and Thomas Jones Barker', Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, Vol. LXIX, No. 277, Spring 1991, pp. 22 - 28.
• Harrington, Peter. British Artists and War: The Face of Battle in Paintings and Prints, 1700-1914, London, Greenhill, 1993.
• Unlucky General's Balaclava Build: Thomas Jones Barker: War Artist

Works

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[Source: J.W.M. Hichberger, Images of the Army: The Military in British Art 1815-1914 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988), pp.51 - 2, 56 - 8, 61 -2, 90. Also partially accessible online at books.google.co.uk/books?id=Q8DnAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA90] [ADD CORRECT REFERENCE]

• "The Capitulation of Kars, Crimean War, 28 November 1855 (1860)" (artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-capitulation-of-kars-crimean-war-28-november-1855-182526/search/actor:barker-thomas-jones), National Army Museum.
• "'The Girls We Left Behind', the Departure of a Troop of 11th Hussars for India" (1866), Thomas Jones Barker, Horsepower: The Museum of the King's Royal Hussars (http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-girls-we-left-behind-the-departure-of-a-troop-of-11th-hussars-for-india-24253).
  
  Presumably such scenes also preceded the same regiment's departure for the Crimea. According to NAM, the 11th were sent to India 1866 - 1878, and 1890 - 1899.
• TJB's "Riderless War Horses After the Battle of Sedan 1873", Maidstone Museum & Bentlif Art Gallery.
  
  This image prefigures John Charlton's "Bad News from the Front" (1887), in that horses are used to evoke the death of their riders (see Hichberger).
• Victoria Art Gallery: The Bride of Death.