Georges Morton - 115 X 100 -xix -portrait Young Girl With Shell

Georges MORTON (1851-1904) --

Young girl with shells, oil on canvas signed lower right

. Canvas dimensions: 89 x 102 cm.
Dimensions with frame 115 x 100 Very good condition -

Old labels on the back of the frame - Expertise by the Turquin cabinet -

Provenance: Sotheby's sale, London, March 24, 1981, lot 209.

Exhibition: London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1886, no. 715.

.He participated in work on the pair of monumental frescoes commissioned from the leading Victorian artist Frederic Leighton in 1868 to decorate the south courtyard of the recently opened South Kensington Museum in London (now the Victoria and Albert Museum)

- Trained at the National Art Training School and then the Royal Academy Schools, he later returned to his first alma mater to teach painting before being promoted to assistant principal of the Royal College of Art, recently renamed the Royal College of Art, in 1900 -

A bold statement for a Victorian painter - Admirable velvety skin tones - William Bouguereau is not far away -