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Description
* George Morland (British, 1763-1804)
Interior of a stable with two cart horses being fed and a goat in the foreground
signed and dated 'G. Morland pinx 1794' (upper left)
oil on canvas
62.5 x 75.5cm
Provenance:
William Garnett Esq., Quernmore Park, Lancaster;
David Davies, 1st Baron Davies of Llandinam (1880-1944);
F D Heastand, Hillsborough, California by 1950;
With the Fine Art Society, London, June 195(7?);
Sotheby's, London, 17th March 1982, lot 112,
The Asbjorn Lunde Foundation, Inc.
Exhibited:
London, Royal Academy, 1794, no. 169, as 'Interior of a stable';
London, Grosvenor Gallery, 1888, no. 176;
Lancaster, Storey Institute, year untraced
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 and secure. The thinner paint passages have a pronounced canvas texture, exacerbated through lining. There are localised areas of overpaint present, covering wear and reinforcing the composition in the darkest areas. The overpaint is well matched to the original. The varnish is clear, even and matte. Framed 82 x 94.5cm
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