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BARRIAS, FÉLIX JOSEPH, born in Paris, Sept. 13, 1822. History painter, pupil of Léon Cogniet in 1836, obtained the grand prix de Rome in 1844, for his picture of Cincinnatus receiving the Deputies of the Senate. First exhibited at the Salon in 1847. Painted frescos in S. Eustache, La Trinité, in the Grand Hotel du Louvre, and other public buildings. Medals: 3d class, 1847; 1st class, 1851; 2d class, 1855; L. of Honour, 1859. Works: Roman Spinning Girl, Sappho (1847); The Exiles of Tiberius (1858), Luxembourg Museum; Dante Alighieri (1853), Tarbes Museum; Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel, Pilgrims to the Jubilee in 1300, Laval Museum; Landing of French Troops in the Crimea, Versailles Museum; Gauls Insulted by Romans, Autun Museum; Death of Socrates, Electra at her Father's Tomb (1873); Conspiracy in Venice in 1530; Titian Painting a Venus; La Picardie (allegorical composition), Amiens Museum; Olympian Gods, Allegory of Music, New Opera, Paris; Sea Bath en famille at Dinard (1883); Charity at Venice, She was an Andalusian and a Countess (1884); Death of Chopin (1885).—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 41; Müller, 27.

BARROSO, MIGUEL, born at Consuegra in 1538, died at the Escorial, Sept. 29, 1590. Spanish school; pupil of Becerra, became painter to the king in 1589, and executed frescos in the chief cloister of the Escorial.—Stirling, i. 250; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 45.

BARRY, FRANÇOIS BERNARD, born in Marseilles, May 3, 1813. Landscape and marine painter, pupil of Aubert and Th. Gudin. His marine paintings are particularly good. Medals: 3d class, 1840; 2d class, 1843. Works: A Fog, Fishing Boats (1840); Leaving the Harbour of Marseilles, Tunny-Fishing (1843); Arrival of the Queen at Tréport (1845); After the Storm, Ships Becalmed (1849); New Parliament House in London, Entrance to Marseilles (1855); Reception of Cardinal Latrizzi in Marseilles (1857); Napoleon III. receiving Queen Victoria at Cherbourg (1859), Marseilles Museum; Arrival of the Waters of the Mediterranean at Lake Timsah (1863), Suez Company; View at Birket-el-Sab (1863), Prince Halim; Ruins of Karnak, First Cataract of the Nile (1864); Tombs of the Caliphs at Cairo (1867); Moon-Rise at Sea, View at Birket-el-Essabé (1868); Constantinople, Entrance to Marseilles (1869); Ajaccio, Tarmouch (1870); Alexandria (1874); Pirate fleeing from a Cruiser, Entrance to the Bosphorus, Inside the Harbour of Constantinople (1875); Ironclads at Toulon (1876); Bark in Distress, St. Petersburg in Evening (1880); Review of Fleet at Cherbourg (1881);	Capture of Sfax (1882).—Larousse, ii. 272.

BARRY, JAMES, born in Cork, Ireland, Oct. 11, 1741, died in London, Feb. 22, 1806. Studied in Dublin under Robert West; went in 1765, by the aid of Edmund Burke, to Rome, where he remained five years. Though the pictures exhibited on his return met with but moderate success, he became an A. R. A. in 1772 and R. A. in 1773, and received in 1782 the appointment of professor of painting; but his lectures gave offence and he was removed and expelled. After this he lived in quasi retirement until his death. The defects of his education, his violent temper, lack of judgment, and the blind devotion to high art which led him to handle a class of subjects