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Charles Burton Barber

Once Bit, Twice Shy

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February 6, 07:46 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 USD

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14,000 USD

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Description

Charles Burton Barber

British 1845 - 1894

Once Bit, Twice Shy 


signed and dated lower right: C. Burton Barber/ 1885 

oil on canvas 

canvas: 36 ¼ by 28 ¼ in.; 92.1 by 71.8 cm

framed: 49 ½ by 41 ½ in.; 125.7 by 105.4 cm

Executed in 1885.

Sotheby's, London, 14 June 1989, lot 179

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon T. Southam, Vancouver (acquired from the above)

Private Collection, Vancouver (acquired from the above)

Sotheby’s, New York, 5 May 2011, lot 53 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, 1885, no. 1120

London, Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, 1886

Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, exh. cat., London 1885, no. 1120

"Royal Academy Third Notice," The Times, 25 May 1885, p. 4

Henry Blackburn, Academy Notes, London 1885, p. 16

"The Royal Academy," The Art Journal, London 1885, p. 258