Julian Barrow

Bought from the artist by Sir David Scott in February 1979

STRUCTURE Original canvas in good overall condition. PAINT SURFACE The paint surface is in good overall condition. There are areas of dirt and surface deposits which may benefit from a light clean. ULTRAVIOLET UV light reveals no sign of retouching. FRAME Held in a gilded composition frame.
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Born in Cumberland, Barrow has lived most of his life in London; more than forty years ago he moved to Tite Street, where he worked in a studio building occupied at various times by Whistler, Sargent, Glyn Philpot and Augustus John.

After a very brief period at art school he worked for a year as an apprentice in the restoration department of the National Gallery, followed by several years studying in Florence. Since then, though based in London, he has travelled extensively, painting wherever he goes, and has held exhibitions in New York, throughout the Middle East and regularly in London.

Painting only in oils, he is best known for his town and landscapes as well as paintings of country houses, he is also a distinguished painter of interiors and conversation pieces. He has been President of the Chelsea Art Society for the last fifteen years, and has exhibited at the Royal Academy many times.

Boughton House and the hundred acres of adjoining parkland in Northamptonshire has been the home of the Dukes of Buccleuch and Queensberry for four hundred and fifty years. The Duke's cousin Sir David Scott lived at the Dower House for much of his adult life and with his wife Valerie established a beautiful garden in the grounds.