Vincent Barber

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Born in Birmingham, the son of artist and drawing master Joseph Barber, he took over the running of his father's drawing academy in Great Charles Street on the elder Barber's death in 1811. Vincent Barber's students at the academy included Thomas Creswick, James Tibbits Willmore, Thomas Baker and Peter Hollins. [cite book|last=Hill|first=Joseph|coauthors=Harper, Edward S., Midgley, William|title=The history of the Royal Birmingham Sociey of Artists, with a Chapter of personal reminiscence by Edward S. Harper|year=1929|publisher=Cornish Brothers|location=Birmingham|pages=31-44|chapter=Some of the earlier artists ]

In 1809 he formed a separate academy of life drawing, with his brother Charles Barber and his father's former pupil Samuel Lines, that would ultimately evolve into the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and Birmingham School of Art.cite book|last=Wildman|first=Stephen|authorlink=|coauthors=|editor=Wildman, Stephen|others=|title=The Birmingham School: paintings, drawings and prints by Birmingham artists from the permanent collection|year=1990|publisher=Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery|location=Birmingham|isbn=|pages=|chapter=Introduction ]

Barber painted mainly landscapes, which he exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1812 and 1830. [cite encyclopedia|author=Dawkins, C. E.|coauthors=Lambert, R. J.|encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|title=Barber, Joseph (1757–1811)|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1331|accessdate=2008-02-20|edition=Online Edition|year=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford] He retired in 1837 and travelled to Italy, dying of malaria in Rome in 1838. [cite web|url=http://www.bmagic.org.uk/objects/1946P41|title=Watercolour - View of Aston Hall from the Staffordshire Pool
accessdate=2008-02-23|work=BMagic|publisher=Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery]

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