Morning Chores Black & White fall out of the ownership

fall out of the ownership of their sitter’s descendants

In fact he documented over sixteen hundred such designs

This painting is in our Cecil Court gallery

This painting was exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts in 1915

Morning Chores Black & White fall out of the ownershipThis is a wonderful image, a hangover from the era of Victorian genre paintings but a very modern painting for 1889. More of a transitional style, it could easily have been painted in the early twentieth century. The pose of the model is very natural, seemingly unposed in fact. The unconscious way in which she goes about her chores is beguiling, and the light is masterly. Even more impressive that Rnquist painted this while still a student of twenty