Lot 635
  • 635

Henry Robert Morland 1716-1797 London

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Description

  • Henry Robert Morland
  • The Fair Nun Unmasked
  • oil on canvas
  • 30 by 25 in.
  • 76.5 by 63.5 cm.

Provenance

Thomas St. John Grant, Kilmurrey House, Kilworth, County Cork.;
F. Schnittjer;
By whom (anonymously) sold , New York, American Art Association Anderson Galleries,  March 16, 1934, no. 75 (as depicting the actress Eva Garrick);
With Newhouse Galleries, New York.

Catalogue Note

This painting was engraved by Carrington Bowles now in the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.  The engraving was accompanied by a couplet from Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock.

A leather bound booklet describing and certifying the painting accompanies this lot.