James Barenger

James Barenger (1780–1831) was an English animal painter and illustrator.

Barenger was born in Kentish Town, London, the son of James Barenger Snr., a metal chaser and artist who exhibited paintings of insects at the Society of Artists and Royal Academy, and Sarah Woollett, the daughter of the engraver, William Woollett.

[2] Beginning as a landscape artist, Barenger went on to specialise in painting horses, dogs and other animals, and hunting scenes.

For the last of these, Scott engraved Barenger's painting of the racehorse Blucher (ca.

[1] He died on 1 October 1831[6] and was buried in Old St Pancras churchyard.