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Charles Burton Barber (b. 1845 – d. 1894) was a British artist who is most known for creating delightful paintings of children and animals. Many of Barber’s most famous works depict young children playing alongside their pets, most commonly various breeds of dogs. Barber’s paintings were never particularly numerous and are now considered relatively rare, despite receiving the patronage of the Queen. Barber was born in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England. He expressed his artistic talent early in life and enrolled in the Royal Academy at the age of eighteen. He went on to win many awards at the Academy and exhibited there in 1866 when he was twenty one years old. Barber was always particularly connected to the natural world and was particularly fond of painting scenes of deer during his early career. That said, despite his interest in painting scenes of red deer and mountain solitudes, his paintings of children and their pets found much more popularity and became the images that made his career.