In the Style of George Morland

Provenance

J. Ward, Esq., 1846 (possibly James Ward, brother-in-law to the artist);
Alexander T. Hollingsworth, London;
His posthumous sale, London, Christie's, 19 April 1929, lot 158, for £1155 to Knoedler;
With Knoedler, New York, by whom sold, circa 1930, for $12,000 to
Willis Mann Sterrett (1865–1933), Baltimore;
Thence by inheritance to his brother, Frank M. Sterrett (1863–1949), Miffin, Pennsylvania;
Thence by descent to James Woods Sterrett, Baltimore;
Private collection, Baltimore
Sale Sotheby's, London, 6 December 2018, nr. 206

Other works by George Morland

Peasants attending to their pigs

A river landscape with cattle resting

Alehouse Politicians
1801

The End of the Hunt
c. 1794

Gypsies