Barry, James, painter, born in Cork; painted the “Death of General Wolfe”; became professor of Painting at the Royal Academy, but was deposed; died in poverty; his masterpiece is the “Victors at Olympia” (1741‒1806).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Barrow-in-Furness * Barry, Sir Charles