{{Short description|British painter (1845–1894)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox artist | name = Charles Burton Barber | image = Charles Burton Barber.jpg | image_size = | alt = Photo of Charles Burton Barber, 1880 | caption = Charles Burton Barber, 1880 | birth_date = 1845 | birth_place = Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England | death_date = 1894 | death_place = London, England | alma_mater = Royal Academy | known_for = Portraits of children and animals | notable_works = ''Queen Victoria with John Brown''<br />''Off To School''<br />''Suspense'' | style = Realism | elected = Royal Institute of Oil Painters, 1883 }}
'''Charles Burton Barber''' (1845–1894) was a British painter who attained great success with his paintings of children and their pets.
Barber was born in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, and studied from the age of 18 at the Royal Academy, London - receiving a silver medal for drawing in 1864, and first exhibiting there in 1866.
During his lifetime Barber was regarded as one of Britain's finest animal painters and received commissions from Queen Victoria to do paintings of her with grandchildren and dogs,<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15402262 Queen Victoria portrait to go up for auction]</ref> and also the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) and his pets. A number of his portraits are in the Royal Collection. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1866 to 1893. In 1883 he was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters.
Barber became a very popular sporting and animal painter, specialising particularly in sentimental portraits of dogs, often with children. His work ranged from photographically realistic to quick sketches. Although some have regarded his work as overly sentimental, his work remains popular, largely because of his competent painting.
Barber received his final commission in 1894 to paint Queen Victoria, with her grandchildren, in her pony-carriage. He died in London soon afterwards. His place as foremost painter of children and pets was taken by Arthur Elsley.
Many of Barber's paintings were made into prints, usually in the medium of photogravure. He exhibited at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Walker Art Gallery and Manchester Art Gallery. Much of his art is at the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight.
==Gallery== <gallery mode="packed" widths="200px"> File:Barber suspense.jpg | ''Suspense,'' 1894 File:Charles Burton Barber1.jpg | ''Off to School,'' 1883 File:Queen-Victoria-with-John-Brown.jpg | ''Queen Victoria with John Brown,'' 1894 File:Charles Burton Barber - A Special Pleader.jpg | ''A Special Pleader'', 1893 </gallery>
==Further reading==
*Furniss, Harry. ''The Works of Charles Burton Barber'' (London: Cassell, 1896)
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==External links== {{commons category}} *[http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/barber_charles_burton.html Barber online] (ArtCyclopedia) *[http://www.rehs.com/visual_history.html?page=1 Rehs Galleries, Inc's Bio and image of Off to School] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20180521115829/http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/paint/barber.htm Biography of Barber] *[http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/eGallery/maker.asp?maker=11654 Works in the Royal Collection] *[http://www.thefamousartists.com/charles-burton-barber Biography & Selected Paintings of Charles Burton Barber] *[http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artist.php?artistid=1988 Paintings by Barber] (Art Renewal Center Museum) *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100501141321/http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ladylever/collections/girlwithdogs.asp Girl with dogs] (Painting at the Lady Lever Art Gallery) *[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=4928718 In Disgrace] (Painting sold at Christie's in 2007 and biography of Barber)
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Barber, Charles Burton}} Category:19th-century English painters Category:English male painters Category:English watercolourists Category:Dog artists Category:People from Great Yarmouth Category:1845 births Category:1894 deaths Category:19th-century English male artists Category:19th-century English illustrators