Oil paint on canvas
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/george-morland-385" aria-label="More by George Morland" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">George Morland</a>
Roadside Inn
Bequeathed by George Salting 1910
actions: processes and functions
adults
animals: mammals
architecture
child
children
group
groups
horse
landscape
man
people
places of entertainment
public house / bar
riding
sleeping
society
transport: land
woman
wooded
<p>This work is typical of the rustic landscape scenes most associated with Morland at the height of his prolific career. His paintings of the early 1790s combine fluid brushwork with echoes of the 17th-century Dutch landscapes his artist father compelled him to copy throughout his seven-year apprenticeship. Closer examination of Morland’s apparently sentimental work reveals undercurrents of class tension. His frequent depiction of alehouses in particular did not sit easily with more conservative contemporaries – a reason perhaps why he did not accept commissions and preferred to sell his work through dealers.</p><p><em>Gallery label, February 2016</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
30 November 2012 – 24 July 2022
2022-07-24
1 December 2012
2012-12-01
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2012-11-30
Gallery 14
Collection based display
Roadside Inn
support: 511 × 664 mm
frame: 688 × 845 × 108 mm
Bequeathed by George Salting 1910
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<p>This work is typical of the rustic landscape scenes most associated with Morland at the height of his prolific career. His paintings of the early 1790s combine fluid brushwork with echoes of the 17th-century Dutch landscapes his artist father compelled him to copy throughout his seven-year apprenticeship. Closer examination of Morland’s apparently sentimental work reveals undercurrents of class tension. His frequent depiction of alehouses in particular did not sit easily with more conservative contemporaries – a reason perhaps why he did not accept commissions and preferred to sell his work through dealers.</p>
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actions: processes and functions adults animals: mammals architecture child children group groups horse landscape man people places of entertainment public house / bar riding sleeping society transport: land woman wooded