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This profile bust of Dame Martha Constance Hattie Barber was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1914 and again in 1927. The Barbers were evidently on friendly terms with Wood, a skillful, if conservative, sculptor, who advised them on acquisitions for their art collection. They had perhaps first met him around 1897, when Sir Henry commissioned a marble statue of Queen Victoria (since replaced by a bronze replica) for Victoria Square, Birmingham from Thomas Brock, whom Wood assisted at that time.
Title
Lady Barber (1869–1933)
Date
1913
Medium
marble
Accession number
B/1/58
Acquisition method
gift from the Barbers
Work type
Bust