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Lot Essay
In 1879 Morgan and his wife Alice Havers painted numerous works around Varengeville in Normandy. In this romantic genre scene, the woman is holding a large basket of cherries in the foreground whilst her suitor appears from the woodland in the distance holding out a rose symbolising his love for her. Morgan used the rural pastime of picking cherries as the subject for two other works featuring children, Cherry Pickers and Cherry Earrings.
A study for the present work in watercolor entitled The Farmer's Daughter (20 x 14 in.) features the woman with a basket of rhubarb instead of cherries alone with her border collie dog with no suitor.
Morgan collaborated with Allen Culpepper Sealy (1850-1827), an animal painter, on several works including Rival Families (1885). It has been suggested that the border collie in the present work could have been painted by Sealy.
The first listed owner of this painting was an esteemed public figure. Alderman Kendrick was a Member of Parliament, Justice of the Peace and was the Chairman of the Art Gallery Committee at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
We are grateful to Terry Parker for his assistance in the preparation of this catalogue entry. This work will be included in his forthcoming book on Frederick Morgan and his family of artists.
A study for the present work in watercolor entitled The Farmer's Daughter (20 x 14 in.) features the woman with a basket of rhubarb instead of cherries alone with her border collie dog with no suitor.
Morgan collaborated with Allen Culpepper Sealy (1850-1827), an animal painter, on several works including Rival Families (1885). It has been suggested that the border collie in the present work could have been painted by Sealy.
The first listed owner of this painting was an esteemed public figure. Alderman Kendrick was a Member of Parliament, Justice of the Peace and was the Chairman of the Art Gallery Committee at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
We are grateful to Terry Parker for his assistance in the preparation of this catalogue entry. This work will be included in his forthcoming book on Frederick Morgan and his family of artists.