Richard F. Barter
Born 1824 (Circa)
Died 1896
Active: 1850 - 1874
Country of birth and death: Ireland
Sculptor
A sculptor from Cork who worked for most of his career from a studio in St Ann's Hill, Blarney. Around 1850 Barter spent a few years in London and exhibited work at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Barter is said to have enjoyed a congenial existence in Blarney, where he collected curios, sculpted portrait busts, and played the flagolet. He exhibited occasionally at the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Royal Academy. His bust of The Rev. Francis Mahony ("Father Prout") was acquired by the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork in the late 1800s.
There is more information about Richard Barter on the Crawford Art Gallery website: http://www.crawfordartgallery.ie/ResearchCentre2.html (accessed 6 December 2017).
Works
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Bust of a Gentleman
1851
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1851
Multiple works
Exhibited at The National Exhibition, Cork, 1852
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1864 - 1874
Exhibited 5 times, 1-2 works per year.
Citing this record
'Richard F. Barter', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib3_1202142081, accessed 01 Apr 2023]
