Frederick Morgan, ROI, (British, 1847-1927)

Gleaners

Gleaners
signed and dated 'Fred Morgan/79' (lower right); inscribed 'No 2. "Gleaners"/Fred Morgan/1 Cathcart Road/S.W.' (on a label attached to the frame)
oil on canvas
78 x 50.5cm (30 11/16 x 19 7/8in).

Provenance
Thomas Agnew & Sons.
Ex. collection Armitage.
Thence by descent.
Private collection, Australia.

The present lot is a smaller version of the 1880 work of the same title, presumably the Royal Academy exhibit of that year (RA 1880, no. 603), now in the collection of Museums Sheffield. Morgan produced a further version of this composition, with the figures reversed, also dated 1880.