NEW YORK, NY.- An oil painting of Sharp, Queen Victoria’s favourite dog is to feature in ‘Dogs in Show & Field: The Fine Art Sale’ on 16th February 2011 at Bonhams New York. The painting, by the Norfolk artist Charles Burton Barber, has attracted a pre-sale estimate of $4,000-6,000. Once in the personal collection of the Queen, the reverse of the picture bears The Windsor Castle inventory stamp and a further stamp denoting the Queen’s property. Sharp was a smooth-coated Border Collie who was named after a government minister who Victoria favoured at the time. The dog was her preferred companion and lived at Windsor Castle – he was a familiar sight at her side almost everywhere she went. After his death he was buried in Windsor Home Park, Berkshire, with a tomb stone that reads “Sharp, the favourite and faithful Collie of Queen Victoria from 1866 to 1879. Died now 1879 aged 15 years.” No stran