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File:The sewing class (unknown date), by John Morgan.jpg

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John Morgan: The sewing class  wikidata:Q115053212 reasonator:Q115053212
Artist
John Morgan (1822–1885)  wikidata:Q6249385
 
Alternative names
j. morgan; john morgan; John Morgan, RBA
Description British painter
Date of birth/death 1822 Edit this at Wikidata 1885 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London Edit this at Wikidata Hastings Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
London Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q6249385
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Title
The sewing class
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre genre art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
The sewing class (unknown date), by John Morgan
Date by 1885
date QS:P571,+1885-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1885-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 95 cm (37.4 in); width: 143.8 cm (56.6 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,95U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,143.8U174728
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Place of creation United Kingdom
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The present lot is a tender portrayal of Victorian childhood, typical of John Morgan's oeuvre. Morgan, like many of his contemporary genre painters, often used a schoolroom as a setting, to portray children with affection, while also engendering a message of virtue. With an increasing focus on public education - Forster's Education Act of 1870 decreeing that education was a public service - and the growing establishment of local school boards leading to compulsory attendance by 1880, the village school in particular, highlighted the Victorian aspiration to educate even the poorest children.

Other examples of Morgan's schoolroom scenes include A Village School in Bedfordshire, 1869 (Royal Academy, 1870, no. 370) - which appears to be the same Leighton-Buzzard schoolroom as the present lot - and Interior of a Village School, which is the collection of the Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield.

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This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
Public domain

The author died in 1885, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1930.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
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