About this lot
Description
* George Morland (British, 1763-1804)
A rider on a country track with figures, sheep and a farmhouse
signed and dated 'G. Morland 1794' (lower left)
oil on panel
29 x 37.5cm
Provenance:
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 wooden panel support. The wooden support and paint layers are in a good, stable condition overall. There are some scuffs to the surface of the varnish and paint layers. The varnish is clear and even. Framed 47 x 56cm
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