John James Barralet was born in 1747 to a French Family in Dublin. Barralet had joined two classes at The Dublin Society of Drawing schools aged seventeen and he was awarded premium in 1764. He specialised in landscapes, producing prosaic works. He was lauded for his figures which were said to give a lively immediacy to his watercolours. He also had a brother Joseph Barralet. He exhibited three landscapes at the
Royal Academy in 1770, and occasionally exhibited in succeeding years. He was employed in illustrating books on Irish Antiquities. In 1795 he emigrated to America, settling in
Philadelphia, where he died in 1815. ==References==