"The Rescue Dog – A Staffordshire Earthenware Group & Its Possible Original Source" posted 13 March 2018 at harryprogger.com: "Marianne A. Barker (b.1802-d.1888)…married naval officer Captain George Wallace in 1826 and is known to have exhibited a total of fourteen works at, amongst other, the Royal Academy and the British Institution between 1820 and 1848."
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This work was prominently displayed in the exhibit Le Roi es mort (The King is Dead) at the Palace of Versailles, 27 October 2015 to 21 February 2016; reviewed here.
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This work was prominently displayed in the exhibit Le Roi es mort (The King is Dead) at the Palace of Versailles, 27 October 2015 to 21 February 2016; reviewed here.
Sarony Exhibition Part 2 includes the story "Sarony the Shark" that tells how Barker's 1871 paintingThe Spa Promenade came to be, and a key to 82 people in the picture.
