IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART 9 MARCH 2026

107 IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART · MONDAY 9 MARCH 2026 AT 6PM 84 Joseph Panzetta (Italian, fl.1789-1830) A BUST OF JAMES BARRY, 1818 Coade stone; (Lithodipyra); (from an edition of 4) inscribed with factory name and dated near base 20 by 11 by 8.75in. (50.8 by 27.9 by 22.2cm) Literature: W. L. Pressly, James Barry, Tate Gallery, London 1983, p.20; A. Kelly, ‘A bust of James Barry for the Society of Arts’, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, no.123, 1974-5, pp. 819-22 Kelly relates that the Day book of William Croggon, Mrs. Coade’s business partner, contains a bill to ‘Drs Clark[e] and Fry[er]’ for modelling a bust of Barry and making four copies of it. The bust was probably based on the frontispiece engraving by C.Picart (after a drawing by William Evans) in Dr. Edward Fryer’s two-volumne catalogue of Barry’s work (1809). This is one of four busts, others being held by St. Paul’s Cathedral, London and the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork. James Barry was an Irish painter, best remembered for his six-part series of paintings entitled The Progress of Human Culture in the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts in London. Because of his determination to create art according to his own principles rather than those of his patrons, he is also noted for being one of the earliest romantic painters working in Britain, though as an artist few rated him highly until the fully comprehensive 1983 exhibition at the Tate Gallery led to a reassessment of this “notoriously belligerent personality”. He was also notable as a profound influence on William Blake. €5,000-€7,000 (£4,350-£6,090 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot84