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4 unusual facts about Henry Aston Barker


Henry Aston Barker

After the Battle of Waterloo, Barker visited the field, and went to Paris, where he obtained from the officers at headquarters all necessary information on the subject of the battle.

Henry Aston Barker (1774 - 19 July 1856) was a Scottish landscape and panorama painter and exhibitor, the son of Robert Barker whose business he continued.

Barker was born in Glasgow, the younger son of Robert Barker, the panoramic painter, whom he assisted as a boy.

Royal Strand Theatre

On the death of Robert Barker, in 1806, his younger brother, Henry Aston Barker took over management of the Leicester Square rotunda.



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