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Sketch of a young woman holding a cup and saucer, circa 1875

SKU: 5318

Titled on a label on reverse
Pencil and watercolour, 8 x 6 1/4 in. (20.3 x 16 cm.)

Presentation:
framed

Size:
Height – 20.3cm x Width – 16cm

DESCRIPTION

Provenance:
Sotheby King and Chasemore, Studio Sale, March 1981; Bourne Gallery. Morris studied in Manchester under the flower and still-life painter, William Muckley. From 1869 he exhibited in London including over thirty landscapes at the Royal Academy

Provenance: Sotheby King and Chasemore, Studio Sale, March 1981; Bourne Gallery.

Morris
studied in Manchester under the flower and still-life painter, William
Muckley.  From 1869 he exhibited in London including over thirty
landscapes at the Royal Academy.  He travelled in Spain and Italy
painting in both oil and watercolour.  In the 1870’s he settled for a
while in Capri and Granada.

 

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THE ARTIST

William Morris
William
Morris
1844 - 1912

Morris studied in Manchester under the flower and still-life painter, William Muckley. From 1869 he exhibited in London including over thirty landscapes at the Royal Academy.

He travelled in Spain and Italy painting in both oil and watercolour. In the 1870’s, he settled for a while in Capri and in Granada.

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