Fine Old Masters & 19th Century Paintings - 10th December 2014

Lot 181

‡Frederick Morgan R.O.I. (1847-1927) Off for the honeymoon

Estimate £150,000 - £250,000

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Description

‡Frederick Morgan R.O.I. (1847-1927)

Off for the honeymoon, 1902

Signed

Oil on canvas

175 x 127cm; 69 x 50in

Provenance:

Anon. sale Christie's London, 16th May 1903 lot 104, Property of the artist, sold to W.W. Sampson for 150gns;

Sale, King and Chasemore, Pulborough 18th Nov. 1970, lot 28

Exhibited:

Liverpool Walker Art Gallery, autumn 1900, no. 306 price £600

Birmingham, Royal Society of Artists, autumn 1901, no.269, price £400

London, Royal Academy, summer 1902, no. 137

Manchester, City Art Gallery autumn 1902, no. 53 price £400

Literature:

Sepia photogravure, 70 x 51mm (copyright from Berlin photographic, 133 New Bond Street, London)

Sepia photogravure 32.5 x 22.5cm, presented with Weldon's llustrated Dressmakers Christmas 1906, (copyright Berlin photographic)

Colour chromolithograph 59 x 43cm, date unknown, possibly a calender

Colour Chromolithograph, calender for 1911

Royal Academy Illustrated, 1902 p.59

Sunday At Home, 1904-5, facing p.59

The Windsor magazine vol. XX11, June 1905 p.2

Everywoman's Encyclopedia part work no. 34, Feb.1912, p.4066 by permission of Berlin Photographic