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==Career==

==Career==

Barker was an artist, and possibly a picture dealer,<ref name="1911 England Census" /><ref name="Waters 1975" /> although local directories list him only as "artist".<ref name="Jennings 2022" /> He began his working life as a textile worker, employed in a weft room.<ref name="Not Just Hockney" /><ref name="1881 Census Wright Barker">{{cite web |title=1881 England Census. 2 Falcon Street, Horton, Bradford. RG11/4456. Page 13/69. Schedule 68. |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/7572/records/24473235?tid=&pid=&queryId=ec1077b4-f250-4e4d-bfa8-7230612e55d5&_phsrc=HFg487&_phstart=successSource |website=ancestry.co.uk|via=Ancestry|url-access=subscription |publisher=H.M. Government |access-date=1 July 2025 |date=1881 |quote=2 Falcon Street. Benjamin Barker, 49, worsted power loom overlooker, born Clayton, Bradford. Wife Lydia, 47, born Horton. Son Wright Barker 17 engaged in weft room (worsted). Born Horton.}}</ref><ref name="Jennings 2022" >{{cite web |last1=Jennings |first1=Paul |title=The Barkers |url=https://www.harrogatecivicsociety.org/historypeopleindex/people01 |website=harrogatecivicsociety.org |publisher=Harrogate Civic Society |access-date=21 June 2025 |date=April 2022}}</ref> He lived near [[Bradford College|Bradford School of Art]] and may have studied there,<ref name="Not Just Hockney" /> although he did study at the [[Académie Julian]] in [[Paris]].<ref name="Jennings 2022" /> At some point before 1891, J.W. Barker left Bradford and worked as an artist in [[Edwinstowe]] and [[Mansfield]], Nottinghamshire,<ref name="Not Just Hockney" /><ref name="Waters 1975" /><ref name="1891 Census Wright Barker">{{cite web |title=1891 England Census. Sherwood Villa, Edwinstowe, Southwell, Nottinghamshire. RG12/2709. Page 6. Schedule 45. |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/6598/records/13807346?tid=&pid=&queryId=09abb19f-3789-4216-973a-2e25742c85cd&_phsrc=HFg479&_phstart=successSource |website=ancestry.co.uk|via=Ancestry|url-access=subscription |publisher=H.M. Government |access-date=1 July 2025 |date=1891 |quote=Sherwood Villa, Edwinstowe. Wright Barker, lodger, age 27, artist, born Bradford, Yorkshire.}}</ref> then moved to [[Hampstead]].<ref name="Jennings 2022" />

Barker was an artist, and possibly a picture dealer,<ref name="1911 England Census" /><ref name="Waters 1975" /> although local directories list him only as "artist".<ref name="Jennings 2022" /> He began his working life as a textile worker, employed in a weft room.<ref name="Not Just Hockney" /><ref name="1881 Census Wright Barker">{{cite web |title=1881 England Census. 2 Falcon Street, Horton, Bradford. RG11/4456. Page 13/69. Schedule 68. |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/7572/records/24473235?tid=&pid=&queryId=ec1077b4-f250-4e4d-bfa8-7230612e55d5&_phsrc=HFg487&_phstart=successSource |website=ancestry.co.uk|via=Ancestry|url-access=subscription |publisher=H.M. Government |access-date=1 July 2025 |date=1881 |quote=2 Falcon Street. Benjamin Barker, 49, worsted power loom overlooker, born Clayton, Bradford. Wife Lydia, 47, born Horton. Son Wright Barker 17 engaged in weft room (worsted). Born Horton.}}</ref><ref name="Jennings 2022" >{{cite web |last1=Jennings |first1=Paul |title=The Barkers |url=https://www.harrogatecivicsociety.org/historypeopleindex/people01 |website=harrogatecivicsociety.org |publisher=Harrogate Civic Society |access-date=21 June 2025 |date=April 2022}}</ref> He lived near [[Bradford College|Bradford School of Art]] and may have studied there,<ref name="Not Just Hockney" /> although he did study at the [[Académie Julian]] in [[Paris]].<ref name="Jennings 2022" /><ref name="YP and LI 11 March 1941" /> At some point before 1891, J.W. Barker left Bradford and worked as an artist in [[Edwinstowe]] and [[Mansfield]], Nottinghamshire,<ref name="Not Just Hockney" /><ref name="Waters 1975" /><ref name="1891 Census Wright Barker">{{cite web |title=1891 England Census. Sherwood Villa, Edwinstowe, Southwell, Nottinghamshire. RG12/2709. Page 6. Schedule 45. |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/6598/records/13807346?tid=&pid=&queryId=09abb19f-3789-4216-973a-2e25742c85cd&_phsrc=HFg479&_phstart=successSource |website=ancestry.co.uk|via=Ancestry|url-access=subscription |publisher=H.M. Government |access-date=1 July 2025 |date=1891 |quote=Sherwood Villa, Edwinstowe. Wright Barker, lodger, age 27, artist, born Bradford, Yorkshire.}}</ref> then moved to [[Hampstead]].<ref name="Jennings 2022" />

Barker was a painter of hunting, animal, and classical scenes, portraiture, and landscapes in oils.<ref name="1881 Census Wright Barker" /><ref name="Mutual Art" >{{cite web |title=John Wright Barker |url=https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/John-Wright-Barker/C24F5A413B5ECC0C |website=mutualart.com |publisher=Mutual Art |access-date=29 June 2025 |date=2025}}</ref><ref name="Beetles" >{{cite web |last1=Beetles |first1=Chris |title=Kathleen Frances Barker (1901-1963) |url=https://chrisbeetles.com/artist/830/kathleen-frances-barker |website=chrisbeetles.com |publisher=Chris Beetles Gallery |access-date=30 June 2025 |date=2025}}</ref> He travelled to Poland to paint [[Abraham ben Abraham|Count Potocki]], and he painted the [[William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland|Duke]] and [[Winifred Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland|Duchess of Portland]], and Frank Renaud, a [[consultant (medicine)|consultant]] at [[Manchester Royal Infirmary]].<ref name="Jennings 2022" /> In 1905 he was commissioned to paint [[Edward VII]]'s dog Caesar.<ref name="Jennings 2022" /><ref name="YP and LI 11 March 1941" >{{cite news |title=Mr Wright Barker |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19410311/070/0003 |access-date=7 July 2025|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |work=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |date=11 March 1941 |page=3 col.3}}</ref> His work remains saleable as of 2025.<ref name="Not Just Hockney" />

Barker was a painter of hunting, animal, and classical scenes, portraiture, and landscapes in oils.<ref name="1881 Census Wright Barker" /><ref name="Mutual Art" >{{cite web |title=John Wright Barker |url=https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/John-Wright-Barker/C24F5A413B5ECC0C |website=mutualart.com |publisher=Mutual Art |access-date=29 June 2025 |date=2025}}</ref><ref name="Beetles" >{{cite web |last1=Beetles |first1=Chris |title=Kathleen Frances Barker (1901-1963) |url=https://chrisbeetles.com/artist/830/kathleen-frances-barker |website=chrisbeetles.com |publisher=Chris Beetles Gallery |access-date=30 June 2025 |date=2025}}</ref> He travelled twice to Poland to paint [[Abraham ben Abraham|Count Potocki]],<ref name="YP and LI 11 March 1941" /> and he painted the [[William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland|Duke]] and [[Winifred Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland|Duchess of Portland]],<ref name="YP and LI 11 March 1941" /> and Frank Renaud, a [[consultant (medicine)|consultant]] at [[Manchester Royal Infirmary]].<ref name="Jennings 2022" /> In 1905 he was commissioned to paint [[Edward VII]]'s dog Caesar.<ref name="Jennings 2022" /><ref name="YP and LI 11 March 1941" >{{cite news |title=Mr Wright Barker |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19410311/070/0003 |access-date=7 July 2025|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |work=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |date=11 March 1941 |page=3 col.3}}</ref> His work remains saleable as of 2025.<ref name="Not Just Hockney" />

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