English Painter, 1780-1831 Related Paintings of James Barenger :. | Portrait equestre du comte-duc d'Olivares (df02) | Mary Magdalene | Gold Fish (mk20) | At the English Coast (mk22) | Crypresses with Two Female Figures | Related Artists: Vervloet Francois Malines 1795-Venise 1872 Pierre Gautherot painted Napoleon Ier, blesse au pied devant Ratisbonne, est soigne par le chirurgien Yvan, 23 avril 1809 John Thomas Baines (John) Thomas Baines (27 November 1820 - 8 May 1875) was an English artist and explorer of British colonial southern Africa and Australia. Born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, Baines was apprenticed to a coach painter at an early age. When he was 22 he left England for South Africa aboard the "Olivia" (captained by a family friend William Roome) and worked for a while in Cape Town as a scenic and portrait artist, and as official war artist during the so-called Eighth Frontier War for the British Army.