Artist
Thomas Barker

Wales
Thomas Barker is a Wales British Romanticism artist. 22 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Thomas Barker painted portraits and landscapes in late-18th- to early-19th-century Wales. His oils and watercolors show quiet moments—like the spiky “A Boy Extracting a Thorn from His Foot” or the broad green sweep of “Bath Landscape.” His figures feel real, not posed. Next, tap “Hannah Mary de Cardonnel Lawson,” Barker’s solid three-quarter-length portrait of a thoughtful woman in pearl-gray silk.
Works by Thomas Barker
Shepherd Boys and Dog Sheltering from a Storm
Figures in a Landscape [recto]
Figures in a Landscape [verso]
A Boy Extracting a Thorn from His Foot
Tilemakers
Young Boy Seated
Hannah Mary de Cardonnel Lawson
Lansdown Fair, near Bath
Sheep Washing
Lansdown Fair, near Bath
Three Girls asleep under a Tent - Morning
Landscape in Autumn
Snowdon with Llanberis Lake
Bath Landscape
River scene with figures.
Landscape with cow and boy
Forest Scene with woodman and dog
Landscape with Sheep and Two Shepherds
The Halt at the Spring
Rustic Figures: Two Boys
Specimens of Polyautography: Boy Seated on a Grassy Bank
Forty Lithographic Impressions from Drawings of Landscape Scenery by Thomas Barker, Selected from His Studies of Rustic Figures after Nature: Seated Man with Baskets Holding Hat and Walking Stick
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