Charles Burton Barber was brn in England and considered one of England’s finest genre and animal painters.He achieved great success during his lifetime and by the age of 18, Barber was in London studying art at the Academy Schools.Barber obtained a silver medal for painting from the antique and in 1866 he exhibited his first paintings at the Royal Academy . Charles Burton Barber became a highly sought after artist and in the early 1870’s Queen Victoria commissioned him to paint her favorite dogs. In 1883 he was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters and he later received a commission to paint Queen Victoria in her pony-carriage surrounded by her grandchildren.Charles Burton Barber’s paintings were engraved and his paintings were exhibiyed tor at the Royal Academy; Royal Institute of Oil Painters; Walker Art Gallery; Manchester City Art Gallery and the Fine Art Society.