William Gerard Barry (1864 in Ballyadam, Carrigtwohill – 9 September 1941) was an Irish painter.
The son of a magistrate, Barry was born in Ballyadam, Carrigtwohill, County Cork. He enrolled in Cork’s Crawford School of Art and studied there below Henry Jones Thaddeus from 1881 to 1883. Thaddeus advised Barry to travel to Paris where he continued his training at Académie Julian under Le Febre, Boulanger and Carolus Duran. His initial ability came in 1887 similar to he acknowledged a £30 Taylor prize after sending a painting to the Royal Dublin Society from Étaples. He traveled extensively, including visits to the United States and Canada. Barry was lively in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, in southwest France during the German pastime of World War II. He died subsequent to a bomb went off close his house on 9 September 1941.
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