About this lot
Description
* George Morland (British, 1763-1804)
Figures on a rocky seashore shooting herring gulls
signed 'G. Morland pinx. 17(91?)' (lower right)
oil on panel
25 x 31cm
Provenance:
Fisher (36?) Radenham (from an old wax seal to the reverse);
Sotheby's, London, 19th February 1986, lot 325,
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 scattered retouchings across the surface which are well matched to the original. The varnish is clear and even. Framed 35.5 x 40.5cm
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