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in Cork in 1741, and studied in the Dublin school 

 under West. He first attracted notice in 1763, when 

 he came to Dublin, by his " Conversion by St. Patrick 

 of the King of Cashel," which procured him the 

 patronage of Edmund Burke, who introduced him to 

 Reynolds; and in 1764 he went to London. Barry 

 also painted " Adam and Eve " (now in the collection 

 of the Royal Society of Arts) ; " Cymbeline " (in the 

 collection of the Royal Dublin Society) ; " Jupiter and 

 Juno," and " Lear and Cordelia." Between the years 

 1777 and 1782, Barry decorated with a series of paint- 

 ings, illustrative of human culture, the great room of 

 the Society of Arts, for which he received 250 guineas 

 and a gold medal. 1 He had a quarrelsome temper, 

 and was unhappy in his dealings with those around 

 him. Barry died in 1806, and lies buried in the crypt 

 of St. Paul's Cathedral. 



The plans for drawing schools, which were to be 

 erected in the new premises in Poolbeg street at a cost 

 of 1871, had been approved in April 1806, and the 

 building was to be proceeded with without delay. 



In May 1808, on behalf of Faithful Christopher 

 Pack, a number of artists signed a statement to the 

 effect that the art of painting as practised by Titian 

 and the Bassanos 2 had been lost for 200 years, and that 

 Sir Joshua Reynolds, Pack's master, after numberless 

 experiments, had failed to discover it. Pack now 

 claimed to have done so, and he copied a Venetian 

 picture said to be by Titian. The artists believed the 



1 See an account of these pictures, by Barry, published in 1783. 

 In the History of the Royal Society of Arts, by Sir H. T. Wood, 1913, 

 pp. 70-9, will be found a very full account of them. 



2 Tiziano Vecelli, commonly called Titian the greatest painter of 

 the Venetian school. The North Italian family of Da Ponte, known 

 as the Bassani, from Bassano, the city in which they lived, were 

 among the famous painters of the sixteenth century. 



