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Swineherd

  • oil paint, canvas
  • 60.4 x 87.4 cm
  • Inv. 1920-I

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George Morland is best known for his rustic genre scenes. Depictions of ordinary people and things have been quite popular since the 17th century under the influence of contemporary Dutch and Flemish painters who were the first to make everyday life an artistic theme. This tradition of genre paintings is well known in England because many Flemish and Dutch painters worked in England in the 17th century. These paintings inspired 18th- and 19th-century British painters in the choice of their subjects. Morland came into direct contact with paintings, especially landscapes, by these old Dutch and Flemish masters at an early age. From the age of fourteen to twenty-one, Morland helped out in his father's practice where such paintings were restored and sold. His love of rural everyday life was stimulated by his many stays in the countryside. In The Boar Keeper we see a daily activity from rural life at the time. The scene is depicted in all its simplicity. The composition is simple and clear, as in Morland's other works, and the colours are warm. The painting appears to have been made in a short space of time and is not very elaborate.

Artist

George Morland RKD
London 1763 - London 1804
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Title Swineherd
Period 18th century
19th century
Location United Kingdom TGN
Collection paintings AAT
Object type oil paintings (visual works) AAT
Inventory number 1920-I
Acquisition credit gift
The Friends of the Museum
Ghent
1920
Current whereabouts Work currently not on display
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IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/847/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300015636 landscapes AAT
300189808 figures (representations) AAT
300263554 animal paintings AAT
Keywords Iconclass 25H1 landscapes in the temperate zone Iconclass
25I3 farm or solitary house in landscape Iconclass
26A clouds Iconclass
41A17 farm (building) Iconclass
41A54 fence, wall, paling Iconclass
46A14 farmers Iconclass
47I212 pig Iconclass
47I221 herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc. Iconclass
47I2271 stall, stable Iconclass
School / Style Romantic (modern European styles) AAT
Museum van Schoone Kunsten : Catalogus ; Oude Meesters, Schilderstukken, teekeningen, plaatsneden (met geschiedkundig overzicht) / Maurice Dupuis, Georges Charles Nicolas Marie Hulin de Loo, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Drukkerij F. De Vos, 1938 ; Gent : Stad Gent, 1938 (p. 100-101)
Chefs-d'oeuvre du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand (exposition itinérante 'Quarante chefs-d'oeuvre du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand' Bruxelles, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 12 février - 6 mars 1949 ; Liège, 12 mars - 3 avril 1949 ; Luxembourg, 9 avril - 1 mai 1949 ; Lille, 14 mai - 12 juin 1949) / Georges Chabot, Paul Eeckhout. - Bruxelles : Editions de la Connaissance, 1949 (nr. 32)
British 18th Century Painters in Oils and Crayons / Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse. - Suffolk : Antique Collectors' Club, 1981 (p. 246-247)
British landscape painting : From the Middle Ages to beyond / Michael Rosenthal. - Oxford : Phaidon, 1982
British Painting : The Golden Age from Hogarth to Turner / William Vaughan. - London : Thames and Hudson, 1999 (p. 150-161)
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