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'''James Barenger''' (1780–1831) was an English animal painter and illustrator.
==Life== thumb|Claret, a hunter (1822) [[File:Barenger - Going out.jpg|thumb|Pointers going out with sportsmen (engraving by John Scott after Barenger)]] Barenger was born in Kentish Town, London, the son of James Barenger Snr., a metal chaser and artist who exhibited paintings of insects at the Society of Artists and Royal Academy, and Sarah Woollett, the daughter of the engraver, William Woollett.<ref name=gilbey> Sir Walter Gilbey, F. Babbage, ''[https://archive.org/details/animalpaintersof01gilb Animal painters of England from the year 1650, Volume 1 - Alken to Gooch]'' (London: Vinton & Co., 1900) pp. 34–39.</ref> His brother Samuel Barenger (christened Major Samuel Barenger) also became an engraver.<ref>{{cite web|title=Samuel Barenger (Biographical details)|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=133370|publisher=British Museum|accessdate=6 June 2014}}</ref>
Beginning as a landscape artist, Barenger went on to specialise in painting horses, dogs and other animals, and hunting scenes. In 1807, at the age of 28, he exhibited at the Royal Academy for the first time. At this stage, he was living with his father in Kentish Town, but later moved to Camden Town. He went on to exhibit 48 paintings at the Royal Academy and eight at the British Institution.<ref name=gilbey/>
He acquired numerous wealthy and aristocratic patrons, and his pictures were also engraved for sporting publications such as W. H. Scott's ''British Field Sports'',<ref>William Henry Scott. ''[https://archive.org/stream/britishfieldspor00lawr#page/n10/mode/1up British field sports]'' (London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 2nd ed., 1820).</ref> ''The Sporting Repository'',<ref>[https://archive.org/details/sportingreposito00lond The Sporting Repository] (1822 - reprinted by London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1904).</ref> ''The Annals of Sporting'' and ''The Sporting Magazine''. For the last of these, Scott engraved Barenger's painting of the racehorse Blucher (''ca.'' 1814).<ref>''The Sporting Magazine'', October 1816, p. 1</ref>
As well as painting, Barenger also bred pointer dogs.<ref name=gilbey/> He died on 1 October 1831<ref>{{cite journal|title=Obituary|journal=The New Sporting Magazine|date=December 1831|volume=2|page=145|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vlMCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA145}}</ref> and was buried in Old St Pancras churchyard.<ref name=gilbey/>
==References== {{reflist}}
==Sources== * {{Bryan (3rd edition)|title=Barenger, James |volume=1}}
==External links== {{commons category}} *[https://artuk.org/search/search/search/keyword:james-barenger_artists Art UK] Paintings in British Public Collections. *[http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/barenger_james.html James Barenger online] (ArtCyclopedia) *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110707060415/http://www.19thcenturypaintings.com/details.asp?stockID=88 Race Horses] (oil on canvas - Julian Simon Fine Art, London)
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