• Was an English portrait painter and amateur musician.
• He was the son of an apothecary in Soho, London.
• After leaving Reynolds' studio he set off for Italy by way of Lisbon, where he stopped for some time and painted portraits.
• In 1771-2 he was in Rome.
• Returning to London he settled in Leicester Square, and exhibited some portraits at the Royal Academy in 1782-3 and 1786.
• Mezzotints by Valentine Green were published after Barron's portraits of John Swan and George Bridges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney.
• He was a good violinist, considered the best amateur performer of his time.
• He died in the autumn of 1791, aged about forty-five.
• He is the elder brother of the painter William Augustus Barron.
Hugh Barron, A Man, Probably a Self-Portrait, ca. 1768
Hugh Barron, A Man, Probably a Self-Portrait, ca. 1768
Hugh Barron, A Man, Probably a Self-Portrait, ca. 1768
Hugh Barron, The Children of George Bond of Ditchleys, 1768
Original, Tate Britain, London. Visited in 2018.
