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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.