FREDERICK MORGAN  (British 1856-1927)
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oil on linen, signed lower left "Fred Morgan"
Provenance:
Cooling Galleries Ltd., 92 Bond Street, London
Christie's stamp "01BZ"
 
British artist Frederick Morgan was renowned for his idyllic genre 
domestic and country scenes depicting happy children interacting 
with pets and other animals. Initially depicting the hardships of rural 
labour, Morgan’s style developed to focus on sympathetic and 
charming portrayals of children, often using his own family as 
subjects. This new awareness and notion of unspoilt childhood was 
an enormously popular theme revered by the middle and upper 
classes of the day. Moving away from the tight Pre-Raphaelite 
tradition toward a looser handling influenced by French plein-air 
painters, Frederick developed his own style much less precise and 
more impressionistic than his father, John Morgan, whom he trained 
under. Taking inspiration from places he visited, Frederick often 
sketched in situ before finishing in the studio and his work became 
so popular it was reproduced widely both in print and used in 
advertising such as for Pears Soap. His popularity was such that for 
many years all his paintings were purchased by the prestigious 
Thomas Agnew & Sons' Gallery. He exhibited regularly with more 
than two hundred works at the Royal Academy between 1865 and 
1919, the Royal Society of Oil Painters of which he was a founding 
member, Burlington House, and the Manchester City Art Gallery.
 
Size in inches: 28.5 h x 21 w (with frame: 34 1/2"h x 27 1/4"w)
 
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