About this lot
Description
* Circle of George Morland (British, 1763-1804)
A figure in red on a bridge near a cottage in a high wind
indistinctly signed lower left ‘M.....d’
oil on canvas
34.5 x 46.5cm
Provenance:
Mark Hanna-Ross Collection;
The Asbjorn Lunde Foundation, Inc.
Footnote:
All proceeds from the sale of this and another eleven paintings (lots 57-68) will benefit the activities of the Asbjorn Lunde Foundation, Inc., which continues its founder’s support of research, publishing, presentation, and practice in museums and music. Throughout his long life, Mr. Lunde supported more than forty museums in his native New York, across the United States, and in Europe with loans, gifts, and funding. Mr. Lunde was a proud New Yorker with roots in Norway. He was keenly interested in nineteenth-century Scandinavian and Swiss landscape painting, Old master painting, and Asian decorative arts.
Condition report:
The painting is executed in oil on a canvas support which has been lined. The canvas tension is good and the picture is in plane. The paint layers are stable but have suffered from wear and abrasion. Areas of overpaint are well matched to the original. The varnish is even and glossy. 50 x 62cm framed
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