Lot 191: HENRY ROBERT MORLAND 1716-1797 LONDON

"THE FAIR NUN UNMASKED"

"THE FAIR NUN UNMASKED"

measurements note
30 by 25 in.; 76.1 by 63.5 cm.

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Thomas St. John Grant, Kilmurrey House, Kilworth, County Cork.;
F. Schnittjer;
By whom (anonymously) sold , New York, American Art Association Anderson Galleries, March 16, 1934, no. 75 (as depicting the actress Eva Garrick);
With Newhouse Galleries, New York.

NOTE

This painting was engraved by Carrington Bowles now in the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. The engraving was accompanied by a couplet from Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock,

On her white breast a sparkling Cross she wore,
That Jews might kiss and Infidels adore.