Italianate Landscape with a Shepherd Dancing while a Shepherdess Plays a Tambourine, with Other Figures Seated Nearby - Barret, George, the elder (Irish landscapist, 1728 or 1732-1784) (My University, 1991)
Almost certainly was in the collection of Rev. Samuel Madden (1606-1765). This painting is based on an engraving in reverse of the painting 'Landscape with Rural Dance'(see M. Rothlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Paintings. Critical Catalogue, I, 1961, p 471-2, no 208). Although Rothlisberger lists an engraving of 1784 by Lowry, Barret must have seen an earlier print, and the Claudian influence would very much have appealed to Madden's Italianate taste for paintings and landscape.
Keywords: Italianate; Art, Irish; Landscape painting -- 18th century; Classicism in art; Shepherds in art; Music in art; Dance in art; Cattle in art; Waterfalls in art; Bridges, Stone; 18th century