Benjamin Barker of Bath (1776-1838), English landscape painter and son of Benjamin Barker the Elder, exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy between 1800 and 1821. A village scene embedded in a landscape with riders in front of an inn, oil on canvas, signed "B. Barker" lower right, relined, restored and retouched, 45 x 58 cm, framed 65 x 80 cm

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