Girl Crying with a Startled Lassie Painting
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People have mentioned this print to me when I have posted creepy children's art previously. My own gran had it too, so I decided to hunt it out online. It's has a very kitsch backstory. The artist Charles Burton Barber, was commissioned by Queen Victoria the First to paint portraits of her grandchildren with their pets.
Kitsch thrives in the market of trying to make small, working class homes far grander than they are (huge ornaments etc), so a mass produced print by an artist for the Royals fits this category perfectly. Personally I couldn't own this print myself, it used to spook me so much as a child at my gran's house, I wouldn't want it.
Kitsch thrives in the market of trying to make small, working class homes far grander than they are (huge ornaments etc), so a mass produced print by an artist for the Royals fits this category perfectly. Personally I couldn't own this print myself, it used to spook me so much as a child at my gran's house, I wouldn't want it.
Claire
