Arts and craftsmen: clock inventor and ship’s figurehead carver caught on canvas
The only known portrait of the inventor Reverend Edward Barlow (1639-1719) was sold by Bath horology specialist Gardiner Houlgate (20% buyer’s premium) earlier this summer.
It got away at the lower end of a £4000-6000 estimate at the auction on June 26.
Barlow, a zealou…