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"
Size: 28 ½ h x 21 w in (with frame 34 ½ h x 27 ¼ w in)
J20619
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.
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