George Barnard 1807

George Barnard 1807-1890
George was born on 11 March 1807, the son of Edward Barnard and Mary Boosey at Clerkenwell, Middlesex.
Emma Hillhouse 1812-1890
Emma was born about 1812, the daughter of John Wilson Hillhouse and Ann Hanbury Wratten, at Finsbury, Middlesex.
I have identified the following children.

Arthur	Born abt 1844	London
Michael Faraday	Born abt 1846	London	Died 1851
George Leonard	Born abt 1850	London	Married Mary Mason
Annie	Born abt 1851	London
Charles Ernest	Born abt 1853	London

Birth of Parents

George Barnard

b: 11 Mar 1807 Clerkenwell, Middlesex
son of Edward Barnard and Mary Boosey

Emma Hillhouse

b: abt 1812 Finsbury, Islington, London
daughter of John Wilson Hillhouse and Ann Hanbury Wratten

Marriage

abt 1840
George Barnard
Emma Hillhouse

1840 2Q St Olive Southwark 4 441

1841 Census	HO107-975	7 June 1841	All Souls and Trinity, St Marylebone, Middlesex
Great Portland Hotel			Born in this County?
George Barnard Emma Plus 1 Servant	Age 25 Age 30	Artist	Yes Yes	abt 1806 abt 1812

Children

Jane Florence Barnard

b: abt 1842 London 1842 2Q Marylebone 1 154
daughter of George Barnard and Emma Hillhouse

Arthur Barnard

b: abt 1844 London 1844 1Q Marylebone 1 199
son of George Barnard and Emma Hillhouse

Michael Faraday Barnard

b: abt 1846 London 1846 2Q Clerkenwell 3 1_8
son of George Barnard and Emma Hillhouse Died 1851 4Q Clerkenwell 1b 103

George Leonard Barnard

b: abt 1850 London 1850 3Q Clerkenwell 3 134
son of George Barnard and Emma Hillhouse

1851 Census	HO107-1518	31 March 1851	Pentonville, Clerkenwell, Middlesex
18 Henry Street
George Barnard Emma (Wife) Arthur Michael Faraday George Leonard Plus 2 Servants	Age 44 Age 38 Age 7 Age 4 Age 8 Mon	Artist	Clerkenwell Hoxton Marylebone Clerkenwell Clerkenwell	Middlesex Middlesex Middlesex Middlesex Middlesex	abt 1806 abt 1812 abt 1843 abt 1846 abt 1850

1851 Census	HO107-1476	31 March 1851	May Fair, St George Hanover Square, Middlesex
21 Royal Institution of Great Britain
Michael Faraday Sarah (Wife) Jane F. Barnard (Niece) Plus 6 Servants	Age 59 Age 57 Age 8	Professor of Chemistry Scholar	Newington Pentonville St Marylebone	Surrey Middlesex Middlesex	22 Sep 1791 abt 1800 abt 1842

Annie Barnard

b: abt 1851 London 1851 4Q Clerkenwell 3 150
daughter of George Barnard and Emma Hillhouse

Charles Ernest Barnard

b: abt 1853 London 1853 4Q Clerkenwell 1b 464
son of George Barnard and Emma Hillhouse Died 1865 3Q Pancras 1b 62

1861 Census	RG9-109	8 April 1861	Somers Town, St Pancras, Middlesex
8 Harrington Square
George Barnard Emma (Wife) Jane F. Arthur George L. Annie Charles E. Plus 1 Servant	Age 54 Age 48 Age 18 Age 17 Age 10 Age 9 Age 7	Landscape Artist Clerk Scholar Scholar Scholar	Clerkenwell Finsbury Marylebone Marylebone Clerkenwell Clerkenwell Clerkenwell	Middlesex Middlesex Middlesex Middlesex Middlesex Middlesex Middlesex	abt 1806 abt 1812 abt 1842 abt 1843 abt 1850 abt 1851 abt 1853

1871 Census	RG10-220	3 April 1871	Somers Town, St Pancras, London
8 Harrington Square
George Barnard Emma (Wife) George L. Annie Helen Hillhouse (Visitor) Plus 1 Servant	Age 64 Age 58 Age 20 Age 19 Age 55	Landscape Painter Clerk	Pentonville Finsbury Pentonville Pentonville Newington	abt 1806 abt 1812 abt 1850 abt 1851 Nov 1817

1881 Census	RG11-197	4 April 1881	St Pancras, London, Middlesex
8 Harrington Square
George Barnard (Head)(M) Jane Florence (Dau) George Leonard (Son) Annie (Dau) Grace Ann Salmon (SisLaw) (M) Plus 1 Servant	Age 74 Age 38 Age 30 Age 29 Age 47	Artist Com'l Clerk	Islington Marylebone Islington Islington Stoke Newington	London London London London London	abt 1806 abt 1842 abt 1850 abt 1851 27 Nov 1833

1881 Census	RG11-796	4 April 1881	Dorking, Surrey
Harrow Road West
Charles Hillhouse Helen (Sister) Emma Barnard (Visitor)(M) Plus 3 Servants	Age 69 Age 63 Age 68	Retired Merchant Wife of Artist	Finsbury Kensington Hoxton	Middlesex Surrey Middlesex	9 Nov 1811 Nov 1817 abt 1812

Death

George Barnard

Died 29 Sep 1890, Age 83, 1890 3Q Islington 1b 210

The Times, Monday, Oct 6, 1890 Obituary

Mr. George Barnard, landscape artist, died on Monday, September 29, aged 83,. He was well known for his water-colour pictures of Alpine Scenery, and was one of the earliest members of the Alpine Club. He was drawing master at Rugby School for a great many years, and is still remembered with affection by many old Rugbeians. He was the author of several important works of great utility to the student - "Foliage and Foreground Drawing," "Landscape Painting in Water-colours," "Drawing from Nature," "Large Studies of Trees," etc.

MIDDLESEX 24 Oct 1890 Probate

BARNARD, George, - The Will, with a Codicil, of George Barnard, formerly of Harrington-square, Regent's Park, but late of 3 Westbourne-road, Barnsbury, both in the County of Middlesex, Artist, who died 29 September 1890, at 3 Westbourne-road, was proved at the Principal Registry, by Jane Florence Barnard, of 3 Westbourne-road, Spinster, the Daughter, and George Leonard Barnard, of 30 Connaught-road, Stroud Green, in the said county, Mercantile Clerk, the Son, the Executors.
Effects £3,853 16s. 1d.

The Alpine Journal, Volume 15, February 1890 TO November 1891

GEORGE BARNARD Another familiar and venerable figure will be missed from our meetings this winter. In Mr. George Barnard, who died early in October, at the age of 83, the club has lost the eldest and first of those artist-members who have in many ways done it such service.
There was a time when Barnard was almost the only Alpine artist whose drawings could be looked at with pleasure by those with any respect for truth in mountain form. Turner's example and Mr. Ruskin's preaching had fallen on stony ground, and the climber who went to a picture-show was at a loss to recognise the peaks he knew in the bulbous or umbrella-shaped monstrosities which did duty for the Schreckborn or Wetterborn alternately-and equally ill. The high Alps of the Watercolour Exhibitions in those days were not only individually but generically, false; they were not only unlike the particular mountain they claimed to represent, but any possible mountain.
George Barnard had, as his books show, some scientific as well as artistic sympathies and connections; he was the brother-in-law of Faraday; and he did his best to paint the mountains in the spitit of a conscientious portrait-painter. Lovers of the High Alps, and early members of our club - such as the late William Longman and H. W. Cole, and Mr. Tuckett and others - appreciated his efforts and encouraged him to paint snow-peaks as principal objects, and not only as accessories in the background. The best of Barnard's work done at this time has naturally long been scattered in private collections, and has hardly been seen by the younger members of the club, although he went on painting until he was past 80, and few of our exhibitions have been without some contributions from his studio.

Barnard was never (as he puts it) a summit-climber. He did not draw the peaks as the climber-painter does, who emphasizes every ridge and furrow. Possibly this Denner-like style of mountain-portraiture has been carried somewhat too far recently. It was reserved for others to catch the sudden atmospheric effects and more dramatic aspects of the snows, to represent the inner scenery of the ice-world. But the veteran artist has left behind him a number of pleasing and faithfully-studied Alpine landscapes, pure in colour and careful in drawing-pictures of the Matterhorn and the Chamonix Aiguilles, of Mopnte Rosa and Val d'Aosta as well as of some more remote districts. For Barnard was by instinct a traveler. Of the extent and variety of his wanderings at an early date some idea may be formed from the lists of illustrations in his two successful works, 'Dawing from Natrure' and 'Landscape Painting'- the firest published in the fifties. They show an intamate knowledge not only of the Alps, but of the Pyrenees and include views of such then out-of-the-way peaks as 'Lang Kofel, Tyrol.' In the chapter on Fontainebleau may be found an entertaining description of the manners and customs of the now famous Barbison School of Painters, and the village inn which they decorated with their paintings.
Mr. Barnard also published a small volume of travel called 'Switzerland.' Many of his writings were first delivered in the form of lectures to the boys at Rugby, where he held the post of drawing master for many years, and had Adams-Reilly among his pupils.

Death

Emma (Hillhouse) Barnard

Died 29 Oct 1890, Age 77, 1890 4Q Islington 1b 220

The Times, Friday, 31 Oct 1890 Death

On the 29th inst., Emma,widow of the late George Barnard, of 3 Westbourne-road, Barnsbury, in her 78th year. Friends will kindly accept this intimation.

SPECIAL THANKS to Jennifer Salmon, of Melbourne, Australia, for many of the details provided above.