At The Cottage Gate
Original Oil Painting on Canvas
attributed to George Morland R.A. (1763 - 1804)
- Signed 'G. Morland' and dated '1793' lower right.
- For a similar signed painting attributed to Morland see Family Sitting Outside a Rural Cottage in Buxton Museum & Art Gallery.
- Listed to £45,000 GBP at auction.
- Painting -30.5cm (12") x 42cm (16 1/2")
- Frame - 47cm (18 1/2") x 58cm (23")
Lot Notes
A very fine oil painting on canvas depicting rustics talking at the gate of a country cottage attributed to George Morland. The painting is signed and dated lower right.
Morland's work is highly collectible realising thousands of pounds at auction. Please see the snapshots of auction results in the photograph section of this listing.
Condition
In very fine condition. The canvas lined in antiquity and without subsequent tears or repairs. There are some old accretions of dirt and grime though remaining acceptable and most attractive. Presented in a restored and re-gilded 19th century wood and gilt composite frame.
Artist Information
George Morland was born on 26 June 1763 in London, the son of the painter H. R. Morland to whom he was first apprenticed for seven years in 1777. He visited Calais and St-Omer in 1785 by which time he was painting sentimental genre scenes, somewhat in the manner of Boilly. In 1786 he married Anne, the sister of William Ward who engraved sixty-nine of Morland's pictures and who married Morland's sister. In the 1790s he turned to rustic genre, but his later years were clouded by reckless self-indulgence. He exhibited intermittently at the SA 1777-91, FS 1775-82, and Royal Academy, London 1773-1804. He died of a brain fever in London on 29 October 1804.
General Information
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