About This Artwork

Angelica Kauffmann
Swiss, 1741-1807

Mrs. Hugh Morgan and Her Daughter, c. 1771

Oil on canvas
24 7/8 x 30 in. (63.2 x 76.3 cm)
Gift of Mrs. L. E. Block, 1960.873

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Allentown, Penn., Art Museum, "The World of Benjamin West," 1962, no. 56.

Publication History

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.).

Ownership History

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.