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Early Career
Barralet began his early career upon his arrival in London, England between 1766-1770. In 1766, his name was listed next to 211 other signatures on the “Rolls of Declaration” supporting the Incorporated Society of Artists in London. Three of Barralet’s drawings were exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1770, “Sunset”, “Ruins”, and "A Storm". Barralet continued to exhibit in the Royal Academy until 1776. In 1773, he founded his own drawing academy in James’s St., Golden Square, which later moved to 24 St. Alban’s St., Pall Mall in 1777. In 1774, he was recognized with a gold palette by the Society of Artists and was elected as a Fellow in 1777. That year he also showcased six landscape pieces in the Great Room, Royal Exchange, in Strand.

Barralet returned back to Dublin in 1779, under the request of his former teacher James Mannin who had fallen ill. Barralet taught in place of Mannin at the Dublin Society’s School for Ornament Drawing. Well regarded by both students and staff including vice presidents of the Society, John Foster and Edmund Sexton Perry, he remained in this position at the school following Mannin’s death in June 1779. He was then delegated superintendent of the school until the General Election of Officers in November (1779) where he lost to William Waldron, protege of second Duke of Leinster. His last payment from the school included gratuity of £45 sterling in consideration of his artistic merits and attention to the school throughout his temporary position.

Barralet remained in Dublin where he lived in George’s Court, South Cumberland Road and in Ballsbridge. In 1780, he travelled with Gaberial Beranger where they sketched while touring Co. Wicklow and Wexford. He exhibited paintings at the Society of Artists Exhibition in William St and earned income as a painter for the Crow Street Theatre, and stained-glass painting under the firm of Thomas Chebsey and Richard Hand. In 1786, he was commissioned by John Foster to paint a family portrait of the Foster family outside their newly built home in Oriel Temple, Co. Louth. Another group portrait of his includes a scene in Phoenix Park of the Duchess of Rutland in the same year. From 1791-1795, he was involved with Francis Grose’s Antiquities of Ireland where twenty-three of his drawings were engraved. Barralet’s work was also found in Thomas Milton’s Select Views from the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry of Ireland between 1783-1793. In 1793, his allegorical cartouche designs were added to Alexander Taylor’s New map of Ireland.