Francis Barlow. Francis Barlow was an English painter, etcher, and illustrator.
He ranks among the most prolific book-illustrators and printmakers of the 17th century, working across several genres: natural history, hunting and recreation, politics, and decoration and design. Barlow is known as the father of British sporting painting; he was Britain's first wildlife painter, beginning a tradition that reached a high-point a century later, in the work of George Stubbs.
He was furthermore a pioneer in the history of comics by creating The Horrid Hellish Popish Plot, a picture story about the life of Titus Oates and the Popish Plot, which is told in a series of illustrated sequences where the story is written underneath them and the characters depicted on those images use speech balloons to talk. While it is not the first example of its kind in history, it is one of the oldest which is signed.
Barlow was born c. 1626 in Lincolnshire. The exact day of Barlow's death is unknown but he was buried on 11 August 1704.
Joseph Strutt records that Barlow died in poverty: not withstanding all his excellency in design, the multitude of pictures and drawings he appears to have made, and the assistance also of a considerable sum of money, said to have been left to him by a friend, he died in indigent circumstances. Barlow's first major work was the illustration of poet Edward Benlowe's Theophila. In Barlow's
He ranks among the most prolific book-illustrators and printmakers of the 17th century, working across several genres: natural history, hunting and recreation, politics, and decoration and design. Barlow is known as the father of British sporting painting; he was Britain's first wildlife painter, beginning a tradition that reached a high-point a century later, in the work of George Stubbs.
He was furthermore a pioneer in the history of comics by creating The Horrid Hellish Popish Plot, a picture story about the life of Titus Oates and the Popish Plot, which is told in a series of illustrated sequences where the story is written underneath them and the characters depicted on those images use speech balloons to talk. While it is not the first example of its kind in history, it is one of the oldest which is signed.
Barlow was born c. 1626 in Lincolnshire. The exact day of Barlow's death is unknown but he was buried on 11 August 1704.
Joseph Strutt records that Barlow died in poverty: not withstanding all his excellency in design, the multitude of pictures and drawings he appears to have made, and the assistance also of a considerable sum of money, said to have been left to him by a friend, he died in indigent circumstances. Barlow's first major work was the illustration of poet Edward Benlowe's Theophila. In Barlow's
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