• Was was an English painter, etcher, and illustrator.
• Barlow was born c. 1626 in Lincolnshire.
• He ranks among the most prolific book-illustrators and printmakers of the 17th century.
• Barlow is known as "the father of British sporting painting".
• He was Britain's first wildlife painter, beginning a tradition that reached a high-point a century later, in the work of George Stubbs.
• He was furthermore a pioneer in the history of comics by creating A True Narrative of the Horrid Hellish Popish Plot (c. 1682), a picture story about the life of Titus Oates and the Popish Plot, which is told in a series of illustrated sequences where the story is written underneath them and the characters depicted on those images use speech balloons to talk.
• While it is not the first example of its kind in history, it is one of the oldest which is signed.
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Francis Barlow, A Roller, Two Peregrine Falcons and a Long-Eared Owl with her Young
Original, Tate Britain, London. Visited in 2018. 
Francis Barlow, A Roller, Two Peregrine Falcons and a Long-Eared Owl with her Young
Francis Barlow, Monkeys and Dogs Playing, 1661
Original, Tate Britain, London. Visited in 2018. 
Francis Barlow, Monkeys and Dogs Playing, 1661
Francis Barlow, Monkeys and Dogs Playing, 1661 
