OBITUARY NOTICES OF DECEASED FELLOWS. 



SIR CHARLES BARRY was born on the 23rd of May, 1795, and 

 was the son of a respectable stationer in Bridge Street, Westminster. 

 Having displayed an early and striking talent for drawing, he was 

 articled at the age of sixteen to Messrs. Middleton and Bailey, sur- 

 veyors in Lambeth, with whom he remained five years, acquiring the 

 elementary principles of his future profession, and those practical 

 technicalities in which they were more particularly engaged; and 

 he was occasionally a contributor to the Exhibition of the Royal 

 Academy. 



In 1816 he lost his father, and having succeeded to a few hundred 

 pounds, he determined to go abroad in order to perfect himself in 

 the highest walks of his art. He there studied the masterpieces of 

 ancient and modern architecture existing on the continent, making a 

 most diligent use of his time ; for he was untiring in his application, 

 and conscious of the great fruits to be derived from availing himself 

 of every opportunity of laying up a rich treasury of reference for an 

 after time. He spent several months at Rome ; and with some 

 other brother artists of like tastes, as Sir Charles Eastlake, the pre- 

 sent President of the Royal Academy, and Mr. Kinnaird, Editor of 

 the most recent edition of Stuart's 'Athens,' he passed on to Greece, 

 where he studied the Parthenon, Theseum, and other monuments of 

 the Periclean age, views of which he subsequently exhibited in the 

 Royal Academy. 



Having exhausted his means, he was on the point of returning 

 home, when an English traveller, Mr. Baillie, who was struck by the 

 freedom of his pencilling, and who wished to preserve some records 

 of a projected tour in Egypt and Syria, engaged young Barry to 

 accompany him as his artist ; and during 1818 and 1819 he had the 

 opportunity of drawing the remarkable monuments and sites of those 

 interesting countries. In 1820 he returned to England, married, and 

 entered upon the practice of his profession. He had for some years 

 to struggle with the difficulties which usually fall to the lot of young 

 men commencing a professional career, even those endowed with 

 the highest qualifications, until they can procure opportunities of 

 showing the extent of their acquirements and capacity for the actual 



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