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FRANCIS BARLOW. 



(Born circa 1626. Died 1702.) 



pRANCIS BARLOW was bom in Lincoln- 

 •*■ shire about the year 1626, and is therefore 

 one of the earliest among animal painters of 

 English birth whose works are known to us. He 

 appears to have come up to London, no doubt in 

 search of the art education which in his day, as for 

 long after, could be obtained only in the studio of 

 some painter of established reputation : and to have 

 taken up his residence in Drury Lane while receiv- 

 ing instruction from William Shepard, a man about 

 ten years his senior, who practised as a portrait 

 painter during the reign of Charles II. William 

 Shepard, it must be added, has left proof of his 

 ability to portray animals as happily as he painted 

 portraits of men, in at least one picture, a mezzotint 

 engraving from which by Fairthorn is in the British 

 Museum. This is a portrait of Thomas Killigrew 

 the jester and his dog, with a medallion portrait of 

 King Charles I. in the right corner. An engraving 

 from this work, which belonged to Lord Godolphin, 

 was sold at the Strawberry Hill sale. At the same 



