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Lot Essay
This picture was painted in the first few years of 1900 on the banks of the River Arun in Sussex. The Morgans left London for their summer holiday in Burpham, near Arundel, travelling in two carriages - one for the family, and one for the luggage, which consisted mainly of Morgan's painting equipment.
The mother in the picture is a portrait of Morgan's second wife, Mary (née Reardon), whom he married on 19 July 1890. She appears in this hat in numerous other works including The Hero of the Hour, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1900, no. 674, and Dainty Fares, exhibited at the Institute of Oil Painters in 1908, no.181.
When Me Too? was reproduced as a colour chromo-lithograph calendar print, a man appears in the boat moored at the riverbank. Print manufacturers often visited artists' studios and suggested changes. Morgan was often unhappy with them but agreed. After it had been photographed, he restored the painting to his original design. This was also the case with his 1904 work Charity and Little Lady Bountiful, where the publisher Charles Faulkner imposed the addition of a peasant girl carrying bull-rushes.
We are grateful to Terry Parker for his help in the preparation of this catalogue entry.
Fig. 1.
Photograph of Frederick Morgan.
Courtesy of Terry Parker.
Fig. 2.
A chromo-lithograph print of Me Too.
Courtesy of Terry Parker.
The mother in the picture is a portrait of Morgan's second wife, Mary (née Reardon), whom he married on 19 July 1890. She appears in this hat in numerous other works including The Hero of the Hour, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1900, no. 674, and Dainty Fares, exhibited at the Institute of Oil Painters in 1908, no.181.
When Me Too? was reproduced as a colour chromo-lithograph calendar print, a man appears in the boat moored at the riverbank. Print manufacturers often visited artists' studios and suggested changes. Morgan was often unhappy with them but agreed. After it had been photographed, he restored the painting to his original design. This was also the case with his 1904 work Charity and Little Lady Bountiful, where the publisher Charles Faulkner imposed the addition of a peasant girl carrying bull-rushes.
We are grateful to Terry Parker for his help in the preparation of this catalogue entry.
Fig. 1.
Photograph of Frederick Morgan.
Courtesy of Terry Parker.
Fig. 2.
A chromo-lithograph print of Me Too.
Courtesy of Terry Parker.