Lucette Barker

Lucette Elizabeth Barker (baptized 29 July 1816, died 21 January 1905) was a British painter of portraits, genre and animal subjects.

Biography Barker was born in Thirkleby in Yorkshire to Thomas Barker, a vicar, and his wife Jane Flower. Lucette Barker had three sisters, two of whom also became artists while the third was a composer. After living in Thirsk, in 1855 Lucette moved to London to live with her married sister, Laura. In London she moved in the artistic circles associated with Holland House, which included the actress Ellen Terry and the artist George Frederic Watts. After the 1870s Barker appears to have stopped exhibiting in public but continued to paint, producing presentation books of sketches and watercolours for family and friends. Barker, and the widowed Laura, retired to Coleshill, Buckinghamshire, near Amersham where she died in 1905.