A Child eating Porridge
George Manson (Edinburgh 1850 - Lympstone 1876)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1874 (signed and dated)
Materials
Bodycolour on paper
Measurements
133 mm (5 1/4 in) Diameter
Order this imageCollection
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 1246542
Summary
Bodycolour on paper, A Child eating Porridge by George Manson (Edinburgh 1850 - Lympstone 1876), signed and indistinctly dated 1874. Circular. Half-length portrait of a young child , turned slilghtly to the left, sitting on a high-backed wooded chair at a table, holding a spoon in its right hand, about to scoop some porridge from a blue and white porridge bowl on a table. The child has slightly unruly hair tied with a red ribbon and wears a blue smock with a brownish bib tied around its chin. Indistinct interior background.
Provenance
Coll. a label on the frame has the name of (?), Edinburgh. Date of acquisition by Mrs. Greville not recorded The bequest of Margaret (Anderson) McEwan, The Hon. Mrs Ronald - later Dame Margaret - Henry Fulke Greville, DBE (1863-1942) from probate records linked with the donation of the property to the National Trust in 1943. This item found on the record for Polesden Lacey pictures, drawings etc., the Library, page 126.
Marks and inscriptions
Signed indistinctly and dated 74 (on front)
Makers and roles
George Manson (Edinburgh 1850 - Lympstone 1876), artist