Pears 1910 Album 1300pc Vintage Over the Garden Wall by Fred Morgan 5
Fred Morgan painted many works which featured in the Pears albums - I know of these:
1891- The Garden of Eden
1893 - After School
1894 - Sea Horses
1901 - The Coming Nelson
1904 - Alice in Wonderland
1905 - Sweethearts
1910 - Over the Garden Wall
John Hyde Collection
Many cutters have used these prints to make jigsaws with. This jigsaw is extremely interesting for its high piece count and unusual and difficult cut. The member who sold it calls it a Christmas-tree cut, but I think of it as more like the work of dressmaking 'pinking shears'. (We spoke about this jigsaw and the others similarly cut at the Nov 2019 meeting, when talking about my little jigsaw 'Sweet as the Heather'.) The 1300pc jigsaw measures 47x30cm and was sold in July 2019 for £632.
(I have two other examples of typical pinking-shear cuts on file, 1000pc Huntsman, sold April 2016 and Pear 1000pc Fruit & Flowers, sold June 2019).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Morgan_(painter)
Frederick Morgan ROI (1847 – 1927) was an English painter of portraits, animals, domestic and country scenes. He became known for his idyllic genre scenes of childhood.
Morgan was born in London to John Morgan and his wife, Henrietta Hester Clare. His father was a successful genre artist sometimes known as 'Jury Morgan' (after one of his paintings The Gentlemen of the Jury). At the age of 14, he was taken out of school by his father who then tutored him in art. At the age of 16, while still studying with his father, his first picture, The Rehearsal, was exhibited at the Royal Academy, and, after a hiatus of several years, his paintings were shown there regularly. For a while he worked as a portrait artist for an Aylesbury photographer; this training proved to be crucial as it "taught him how to observe closely and to give the greatest attention to detail."
Eventually he turned to other subjects for his art, in particular idyllic genre scenes of country life and childhood. For many years, starting in 1874, Thomas Agnew & Sons' purchased all the work he produced. Over this period he painted some of his most popular works such as The Doll’s Tea Party (1874), Emigrants' Departure (1875) and School Belles (1877). Most of his painting was done in the village of Shere close to Guildford, a well-known retreat for artists. He also painted in Normandy, including Midday Rest (1879) and An Apple Gathering (1880).
Although an excellent portrait artist, Morgan had problems in depicting pets and barnyard animals - he enlisted the aid of either Arthur John Elsley or Allen Sealey (1850–1927) when such problems needed resolving.
He is known mostly for his romantic and sentimental paintings of children in the same style as his contemporary Arthur John Elsley. His paintings achieved great popularity in his lifetime and were widely published. He exhibited with the Royal Academy and was a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI).
In 1872, he married another painter, Alice Mary Havers (1850–1890); they had three children. Their eldest son, Valentine, known as Val Havers, also developed into a painter. Frederick Morgan married twice more, producing two children from the second marriage. Morgan's paintings are exhibited at many art galleries and museums including the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and the Russell-Cotes Museum in Bournemouth. His Turn Next, was used to advertise Pears' Soap and is in the Lady Lever Art Gallery at Port Sunlight.
Pears 1910 Album 1300pc Vintage Over the Garden Wall by Fred Morgan 5
Fred Morgan painted many works which featured in the Pears albums - I know of these:
1891- The Garden of Eden
1893 - After School
1894 - Sea Horses
1901 - The Coming Nelson
1904 - Alice in Wonderland
1905 - Sweethearts
1910 - Over the Garden Wall
John Hyde Collection
Many cutters have used these prints to make jigsaws with. This jigsaw is extremely interesting for its high piece count and unusual and difficult cut. The member who sold it calls it a Christmas-tree cut, but I think of it as more like the work of dressmaking 'pinking shears'. (We spoke about this jigsaw and the others similarly cut at the Nov 2019 meeting, when talking about my little jigsaw 'Sweet as the Heather'.) The 1300pc jigsaw measures 47x30cm and was sold in July 2019 for £632.
(I have two other examples of typical pinking-shear cuts on file, 1000pc Huntsman, sold April 2016 and Pear 1000pc Fruit & Flowers, sold June 2019).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Morgan_(painter)
Frederick Morgan ROI (1847 – 1927) was an English painter of portraits, animals, domestic and country scenes. He became known for his idyllic genre scenes of childhood.
Morgan was born in London to John Morgan and his wife, Henrietta Hester Clare. His father was a successful genre artist sometimes known as 'Jury Morgan' (after one of his paintings The Gentlemen of the Jury). At the age of 14, he was taken out of school by his father who then tutored him in art. At the age of 16, while still studying with his father, his first picture, The Rehearsal, was exhibited at the Royal Academy, and, after a hiatus of several years, his paintings were shown there regularly. For a while he worked as a portrait artist for an Aylesbury photographer; this training proved to be crucial as it "taught him how to observe closely and to give the greatest attention to detail."
Eventually he turned to other subjects for his art, in particular idyllic genre scenes of country life and childhood. For many years, starting in 1874, Thomas Agnew & Sons' purchased all the work he produced. Over this period he painted some of his most popular works such as The Doll’s Tea Party (1874), Emigrants' Departure (1875) and School Belles (1877). Most of his painting was done in the village of Shere close to Guildford, a well-known retreat for artists. He also painted in Normandy, including Midday Rest (1879) and An Apple Gathering (1880).
Although an excellent portrait artist, Morgan had problems in depicting pets and barnyard animals - he enlisted the aid of either Arthur John Elsley or Allen Sealey (1850–1927) when such problems needed resolving.
He is known mostly for his romantic and sentimental paintings of children in the same style as his contemporary Arthur John Elsley. His paintings achieved great popularity in his lifetime and were widely published. He exhibited with the Royal Academy and was a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI).
In 1872, he married another painter, Alice Mary Havers (1850–1890); they had three children. Their eldest son, Valentine, known as Val Havers, also developed into a painter. Frederick Morgan married twice more, producing two children from the second marriage. Morgan's paintings are exhibited at many art galleries and museums including the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and the Russell-Cotes Museum in Bournemouth. His Turn Next, was used to advertise Pears' Soap and is in the Lady Lever Art Gallery at Port Sunlight.