EDWARD MIDDLETON BARRY ARA (BRITISH 1830 – 1880)

Architectural Design, Depicting An Elegant Facade with Arms For The City Of London, C.1865

watercolour, pen and ink over traces of pencil

63 x 91 cm

Edward Middleton Barry (1830-1880), architect, was the third son of Sir Charles Barry, R.A. In 1848 he had become a student at the Royal Academy, assisting his father he found time also to devote to works of his own. The first of these designs executed was St. Saviour's Church, Haverstock Hill, in 1855-6, and his designs for St. Giles's schools, Endell Street, which were carried out under his own supervision 1859-60, and gave him a recognised position as an architect. It was to the originality displayed in these works that he owed his admission, in 1861, as an associate to the Royal Academy