File:Charles Burton Barber - A Little Girl and her Sheltie.jpg

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A Secret Place   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Charles Burton Barber  (1845–1894)  wikidata:Q3666356
 
Charles Burton Barber
Alternative names
Burton Barber; Barber; C. Burton Barber
Description British painter and illustrator
Date of birth/death 1845 Edit this at Wikidata 1894 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Great Yarmouth London
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creator QS:P170,Q3666356
Title
A Little Girl and her Sheltie
label QS:Len,"A Little Girl and her Sheltie"

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A Secret Place
label QS:Len,"A Secret Place"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description

Charles Burton Barber specialized in scenes of children with animals, and from 1866 to 1893 he exhibited thirty-two works at the Royal Academy. During this period Queen Victoria and Prince Albert commissioned the artist to paint pictures of their grandchildren and favorite pets. In this he inherited Landseer's mantle, and like Landseer, his first love was the Highlands of Scotland where he was raised, but he found that subjects such as the present example proved more commercially attractive to the picture buying public.

A Special Pleader (fig. 1) was painted the year after A Secret Place and features the same little girl and collie. The present lot illustrates the girl, clearly without permission, delving into a secret hiding place known only by herself and her loyal companion. In A Special Pleader, which follows our heroine's story, her secret has been discovered and she stands in shame against the wall with the collie looking into the near foreground pleading on her behalf for her release from punishment.

The composition has been carefully constructed to illustrate the fashionable aesthetic taste of the day. Our heroine and her companion perch on a George II side chair as she reaches into an oriental cabinet. The rich exoticism is further conveyed through the vivid golden floral wallpaper, the elaborately upholstered pouf, the intricately carved frame and the sumptuous Persian rug. The addition of a dried palm leaf, displayed above a framed landscape, provides further hints of the East.[1]
Date 1892
date QS:P571,+1892-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 92.7 cm (36.4 in); width: 72.3 cm (28.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,92.7U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,72.3U174728
Unknown locationUnknown location
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Signature and date bottom left:

C Burton Barber. / 1892.
Source/Photographer Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5989899 (sale 12136, lot 90)

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  1. ↑ Christie's online

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