'The Pretty Ballad Singer'
Henry Robert Morland (1712/19 – London 1797)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1765 - 1782
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
937 x 810 x 50 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872273
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, 'The Pretty Ballad Singer' by Henry Robert Morland (1712/19 – London 1797), circa 1765/82. A girl singing ballads by a paper lanthorn (lantern). Another version is in Tate Britain.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust as part of the endowment by Montagu Brownlow Parker, 5th Earl of Morley (1878-1962)
Credit line
Saltram, The Morley Collection (The National Trust)
Makers and roles
Henry Robert Morland (1712/19 – London 1797), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Godfried Schalcken (Made, near Dordrecht, 1643 - The Hague 1706), artist
References
Figures de Fantaisie du XVI ème au XVIII ème siècle, Musée des Augustins (Ed. Somogy) accompagnant l’exposition Ceci n’est pas un portrait. Figures de Fantaisie de Murillo, Fragonard, Tiepolo… , 21 Novembre 2015 au 6 mars 2016., Cat.31, p. 158