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Mrs. Hugh Morgan and Her Daughter
Exhibition history
Allentown, PA, Art Museum, The World of Benjamin West, 1962, cat. 56. Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Ireland: Crossroads of Art and Design, 1690-1840, March 17 - June 7, 2015.
Publications
Malcolm Warner in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1996), pp. 251–53 (ill.). William Laffan and Christopher Monkhouse, Ireland: Crossroads of Art and Design, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University Press, 2015) pp. 230.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Angelica Kauffmann (Swiss, 1741–1807)
- Date
- c. 1771
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 63.2 × 76.3 cm (24 7/8 × 30 in.); Framed: 76.9 × 89.8 × 10.2 cm (30 1/4 × 35 3/8 × 4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- 18th Century
- Place
- Switzerland
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. L. E. Block
- Accession no.
- 1960.873
Provenance
Probably Mrs. Hugh Morgan, Cottles Town and Cork Abbey, Ireland [according to hand-written label on stretcher]; probably by descent to her daughter Catharine, Mrs. Robert Stearne Tighe, Mitchells Town, Ireland; possibly Tighe family, Ashgrove, Ellesmere, Shropshire, to around 1924 [see Lady Victoria Manners and G. C. Williamson, Angelica Kauffman, R.A.: Her Life and Her Works (New York, 1924), p. 29]. Mrs. Leigh E. Block, Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 1960.
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00000629
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