BARCLAY, William

1793 - 1859

William Barclay was baptised at St James, Westminster, London on 3 November 1793, son of William Barclay, a miniature painter, of Tottenham, London, and his wife Isabella. He entered the Royal Academy Schools on 15 January 1820, under the title ‘William Barclay Jnr’. He established himself as a miniature painter, practising in London and Paris and made numerous copies from the works of the Italian masters in the Louvre. He exhibited portraits and some copies in water-colours at the Paris Salon 1831 as well as at the Royal Academy showing each year 1833-1838, 1846, 1851 and finally in 1859 'Mrs Petrie'. He also exhibited at the Suffolk Fine Arts Association at Ipswich in 1850, when he had on show three watercolours 'A Girl Protecting her Dove', 'The Portrait' and 'A Girl with Spaniel Puppy'. Barclay's miniature of Mrs Bacon (1836) and two miniatures of unknown sitters are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. William Barclay died, possibly in Paris, in 1859.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from 41 Foley Place, Portland Place, London
1832 722 Portrait of a Gentleman - miniature
         736 Portrait of a Lady - miniature
         749 The Portrait - miniature
         874 Portrait of a Lady - miniature
1833 708 Portrait of Lord Robert Grosvenor - miniature
         712 Portrait of the Hon. Miss Robinson - miniature
         715 Portrait of Mrs. Pulteney Beridge - miniature
         724 Portrait of a Young Lady - miniature
         749 Portrait of a Lady - miniature
         758 Portrait of Mme. de Silva and infant - miniature
         861 Portrait of George Cole, Esq. - miniature
from 9 Lower Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, London
1834 667 Portrait of Lady Mary Vyner - miniature
         680 Portraits of Lady Radstock and the Hon. Granville Waldegrave - miniature
         686 Portrait of Chevalier Adolphe De Lattre - miniature
         698 Portrait of a Lady - miniature
         774 The Morning Star - miniature
1835 649 Portrait of the Right Hon. Lady Radstock - miniature
         650 Portrait - miniature
         685 Portrait of the Honourable George M. Fortescue - miniature
         698 Portrait of the Hon. Mrs. Trotter - miniature
         818 Portrait of the Hon. Lady Louisa Fortescue - miniature
         839 Portrait of Jame Robert Campbell, Esq. - miniature
         883 Portrait of Miss Julia Singer - miniature
1836 643 Portrait of James Weir Hogg, Esq., M.P. - miniature
         683 Portrait of the Honourable Mrs. Charles Canning - miniature
         685 Portrait of a Lady - miniature
         700 Portrait of the Honourable Charles Canning
         785 Portraits of the Countess of Carnarvon, Lord Porchester and the infant Lady Emeline Herbert
         793 Portrait of Miss Grahame - miniature
1837 785 Portrait of Mrs Henry Daniel - miniature
         800 Portrait of Charles Millett - miniature
         833 Portrait - miniature
         837 Portrait - miniature
         840 Portrait for a bracelet - miniature
         916 Portrait of the Hon. Lady Harriette Anne, Countess D'Orsay - miniature
         920 Portrait - miniature
         943 Portrait of a Lady with a Spaniel - miniature
1838 799 Lady Harriette Anne, Countess D'Orsay - miniature
         831 The Hon. Miss Bentinck - miniature
         854 Mrs Campbell - miniature
         975 Charles Hogg, Esq. - miniature
from 14 Charles Street, Middlesex Hospital, London
1846 A Girl of Lisbon gathering Grapes, with a view of the mouth of the Tagus - miniature
from Paris
1851 875 Lady Sinclair, wife of Sir John Gordon Sinclair, Bart. - miniature
1856 699 Mrs Petre - miniature

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Works by This Artist