Gallery Notes

PREVIEW: Forty years ago George Barret could still be described as ‘[b]y far the best-known Irish landscape painter’ – no casual hyperbole in some dealer’s catalogue, this, but the verdict of the leading scholars of traditional Irish art, Crookshank and Fitzgerald (see Bibliography). Today, however, to most picture collectors the term ‘Irish landscape’ means towering clouds over the Connemara uplands by Paul Henry (1896-1958), and Barret’s tranquil parkland scenes, with their imposing trees and romantic waterfalls have fallen into comparative obscurity...