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JAMES BARENGER. 

 (Born 1780. Died 1831.) 



TAMES BARENGER born 1780. was, there 



^ is little room to doubt, the son of an artist 



of the same name who, in the last decade of the 



eighteenth century, exhibited a few pictures of 



entomological interest, butterfly and insect studies, 



at the Royal Academy. We do not anywhere 



find it definitely stated that James Barenger, the 



painter of insect life, was the father of James 



Barenger, the painter of sporting subjects ; but 



inasmuch as the Royal Academy catalogues give 



the address of each as Kentish Town, the 



similarity of name and sequence of dates justifies 



the assumption that the two were father and son. 



In Graves' valuable Dictionary they appear as : — 



James Barenger, London. Exhibited 1793- 1799. Insects. 

 James Barenger, Junr., London. Ditto, 1807-1831. Sporting. 



The elder Barenger and his brother, S. Barenger 

 who achieved some measure of success as an 

 engraver, were nephews of the famous engraver 

 William Woollett. 



Landscapes, more especially park scenes which 



