Not on display
- Artist
- Henry Robert Morland 1716–1797
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 743 × 616 mm
frame: 942 × 817 × 92 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1894
- Reference
- N01403
Display caption
Throughout his life Morland painted 'fancy subjects' of servant maids, ballad-singers and oyster-girls, all very similar to this pair. They are derived in large from Mercier's earlier fancy pictures of scenes of domestic occupation, which he produced with an eye to the print market. The tradition that these pictures are actually portraits of famous contemporary society beauties is simply a sentimental notion, and in fact Morland exhibited at least five similar pairs of pictures between 1768 and 1782.
Gallery label, August 2004
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