13th Jul, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
British, European & Sporting Art
1033
Attributed to George Morland (1763-1804)
Stealing Apples
Signed, oil on canvas, 39.5cm by 50.5cm
Sold for £450
Estimated at £400 - £600
There is a quantity of dirt and debris trapped behind the bottom stretcher bar. Good tension. Lined, original tacking margins removed as visible from the face at the top left and top right. All keys present, but mould growth on two keys and thick white drips of paint? in places on stretcher and frame.
Brittle age and impact craquelure throughout; a finescale craquelure in the darker passages not elevated and secure, and a broader pattern of cracks mostly in the thicker passages of paint and associated with the stretcher bars which is elevated but not actively flaking (see images in reflected light). There are a few minor scattered retouched losses, including one to the roof over the door. There has possibly been a little minor abrasion/wear. There has been some reinforcing retouching around the woman and to her face, which how appears milky and a pinkish shade and slightly matt (see images).
There is one large drip mark running from the boy in red's shoulder to the bottom edge, appears to have been the same white paint as on the reverse - remants of the paint sit on the sight edge, the rest has been wiped off but it has bitten into the varnish and appears whitish and matte.
There is a little ingrained dirt and varhish, and a likely slightly yellowed upper varnish layer with surface dirt, light dust and surface accretions including a few flyspots.
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Auction: British, European & Sporting Art, 13th Jul, 2024
Sir Alfred Munnings is rightly celebrated as the master of equine art; his lifelong affinity with the horse is reflected in his insightful and vital equine portraits that capture the grace and power of the animals, and his “Lord Astor on Shooting Stick with Horses” will be sold in the British, European and Sporting Art Sale on 13th July. The painting is a sketch for “A Summer Evening at Cliveden, Waldorf Astor, Second Viscount Astor (1879-1952), seated”, which is held in the Cliveden Estate Collection in Buckinghamshire, now managed by the National Trust. From the same private collection is a watercolour by Munnings; “In the Woods Near Noyon 1918 Attack. Our Retreat” was executed whilst the artist was serving in the First World War with the Canadian Cavalry.
An engaging portrait sketch by the renowned George Romney, which has been in the same family collection since it was painted, will also be offered. The sketch depicts Caesar Hawkins and is thought to have been executed in preparation for a full-length portrait of Caesar, his sister Louisa Anne, and their mother Emma Hawkins (née Adair), which was once in the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Four works by one of the leading Victorian equestrian artists, Heywood Hardy are also on offer, hailing from two private collections.
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