'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
Exhibition history
Ceci n'est pas un portrait. Figures de fantaisie: Murillo, Fragonard, Tiepolo, Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, 2015 - 2016, no.31
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