Reading the News: Horse and grooms outside a stable

Details

George Morland (1762/3-1804)
Reading the News: Horse and grooms outside a stable
signed and dated 'g.morland.1792.' (centre right)
oil on canvas
25½ x 30¾ in. (64.8 x 78.1 cm.)
in a contemporary carved and gilded frame

Provenance

Charles Thomas Milburn, 1945.
with Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, 1947.
Messrs. Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Limited; Christie's, London, 20 July 1951, lot 110 (650 guineas to Lord Blackford).

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Lot Essay

Walter Hutchinson acquired this Morland in 1947 to add to his growing collection of sporting paintings, drawings, prints and bronzes. Hutchinson had aspirations of establishing a 'National Gallery of British Sports and Pastimes', exhibiting six hundred of his works in Hutchinson House, London between 1945 and 1950. Reading the News was exhibited as no. 91 in the Hutchinson House Collection. When Hutchinson died in 1950, the collection was dispersed (through sales at Christie's in July and December 1951, April 1952 and October 1955).
For details on the artist please refer to lot 72.

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