Lot 522
  • 522

George Morland

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • George Morland
  • The storm
  • signed lower left: G. Morland pinx.
  • oil on canvas
  • 34 by 46 in.; 86.3 by 116.8 cm.

Provenance

E. Burgess Warren, Philadelphia, 1899 (from an old label on the reverse);
Sir A. Mortimer Singer;
F. Ambrose Clark.

Condition

Oil on canvas, with an old lining. The canvas is somewhat slack on the stretcher. The picture surface is abraded and has surface dirt. Under UV light, the streakily applied varnish fluoresces green and is very difficult to read. The area of the sky around the tree at center left fluoresces purple.
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