ARTIST: Robert Morley (British, 1857 - 1941) NAME: Lake Landscape MEDIUM: oil on board CONDITION: Very good. Minor craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light. Minor damages to frame. SIGHT SIZE: 12 x 18 inches / 30 x 45 cm FRAME SIZE: 17 x 23 inches / 43 x 58 cm SIGNATURE: lower left CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 118139 US Shipping $60 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Robert Morley, was born at Kentish Town, London on 30 July 1857, second son of Professor Henry Morley and his wife Mary Anne Stagle, who married at Kensington, London in 1851. In 1871, a 13 year old student, living at Upper Park Road, St John, Hampstead with his mother, 49 year old Mary Anne, with his four siblings, Violet 17, Henry Foster 15, Margaret 11 and Edith Caroline 6. Robert studied at the Slade School of Fine Arts under Alphonse Legros (1837-1911) afterwards in Munich and in Rome and was a Slade scholar and Painting Medallist. In 1881, a 23 year old artist, still living at 8 Upper Park Road, Hampstead, with his 58 year old father Henry, a professor of engineering at University College, London and two siblings, Henry and Margaret. He married at Manchester in 1895, Mary Hodgkinson and they moved to Tilford Farm House, Farnham Royal, Surrey. In 1911, a 53 year old painter artist, living at The Dial House, Frensham, Surrey with his 49 year old wife Mary, who was born Manchester, with a visitor and one servant, they later moved to Stroud, Gloucestershire. A painter of animal subjects, landscapes, genre and historical subjects, exhibiting largely figure subjects but after 1888 turned to just animal painting and landscape. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1884 and in 1921 he exhibited at the Society of Animal Painters "half a dozen ˜anecdotes rendered with his wonted taste for the whimsicalities of animal life!" and in 1922 at the Society of British Artists 'The Manor Farm 1693', "a sincere record of a charming stone-built house". A member of the Royal Society of British Artists 1889 and subsequently Hon. Treasurer 1890-1896 and a member of the Ipswich Fine Art Club 1919-1926 exhibiting in 1919 from The Dial House, Frensham, two oils 'A Garden Gate' and 'Where Wild Fowl Call' and in 1921 'In Doubt' and 'In Off' and in 1924 he exhibited from Langford, Lechdale, Gloucestershire, two further oils 'In the Lull of the World' and 'First Come, First Served'. He died at The Knapp, Elcombe, Stroud, Gloucestershire on 3 April 1941, aged 83. He signed his works 'Robert Morley'.