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Lucette Barker
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'''Lucette Elizabeth Barker''' (baptized 29 July 1816, died 21 January 1905) was a British painter of portraits, genre and animal subjects.
==Biography==
Barker was born in Thirkleby in [[Yorkshire]] to Thomas Barker, a vicar, and his wife Jane Flower.<ref name="ODNB3"></ref> Lucette Barker had three sisters, two of whom also became artists while the third was a composer.<ref name="ODNB3"/> Although Thomas Barker taught his daughters to paint and draw and arranged private art lessions for them he was opposed to them working for a living.<ref name="ODNB3"/> Despite this, Lucette Barker did undertake commercial work. She provided illustrations for a 1851 book, ''The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales'' by [[Margaret Getty]] and exhibited several paintings in public.<ref name="ODNB3"/> Between 1853 and 1874, Barker showed four paintings at the [[Royal Academy]], one at the [[British Institution]] and several elsewhere.<ref name="CWood"></ref><ref name="BritPort"></ref> In 1855 Lucette moved to London to live with her married sister, Laura. In London she moved in the artistic circles associated with [[Holland House]], which included the actress [[Ellen Terry]] and the artist [[George Frederic Watts]].<ref name="ODNB3"/> After the 1870's Barker appears to have stopped exhibiting in public but continued to paint, producing presentation books of sketches and watercolours for family and friends.<ref name="ODNB3"/> Barker, and the widowed Laura, retired to [[Amersham]] where she died in 1905.<ref name="ODNB3"/>
==References==
[[Category:1816 births]]
[[Category:1905 deaths]]
[[Category:19th-century English painters]]
[[Category:19th-century British women artists]]
[[Category:English women painters]]
[[Category:People from Yorkshire]]
==Biography==
Barker was born in Thirkleby in [[Yorkshire]] to Thomas Barker, a vicar, and his wife Jane Flower.<ref name="ODNB3"></ref> Lucette Barker had three sisters, two of whom also became artists while the third was a composer.<ref name="ODNB3"/> Although Thomas Barker taught his daughters to paint and draw and arranged private art lessions for them he was opposed to them working for a living.<ref name="ODNB3"/> Despite this, Lucette Barker did undertake commercial work. She provided illustrations for a 1851 book, ''The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales'' by [[Margaret Getty]] and exhibited several paintings in public.<ref name="ODNB3"/> Between 1853 and 1874, Barker showed four paintings at the [[Royal Academy]], one at the [[British Institution]] and several elsewhere.<ref name="CWood"></ref><ref name="BritPort"></ref> In 1855 Lucette moved to London to live with her married sister, Laura. In London she moved in the artistic circles associated with [[Holland House]], which included the actress [[Ellen Terry]] and the artist [[George Frederic Watts]].<ref name="ODNB3"/> After the 1870's Barker appears to have stopped exhibiting in public but continued to paint, producing presentation books of sketches and watercolours for family and friends.<ref name="ODNB3"/> Barker, and the widowed Laura, retired to [[Amersham]] where she died in 1905.<ref name="ODNB3"/>
==References==
[[Category:1816 births]]
[[Category:1905 deaths]]
[[Category:19th-century English painters]]
[[Category:19th-century British women artists]]
[[Category:English women painters]]
[[Category:People from Yorkshire]]
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