George Randolph Barse

George Randolph Barse Jr. (July 31, 1861 – February 25, 1938)[1] was an American artist and illustrator.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Barse attended public schools in Kansas City, Missouri and went to Paris in 1878, where he spent five years training at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in the atelier of Alexandre Cabanel, and at the Académie Julien under Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger.

His six years in Italy included his marriage to Italian model Rosina Ferrara, muse of John Singer Sargent and others, in 1891.

He also taught a class in life drawing at the Art Students League of New York.

Barse committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning four years after his wife's death.