b/w engraving
1943
7 5/16 x 10 15/16
edition: 60
signed in pencil.
After winning a scholarship in architectural studies to the Royal College of Art in 1900, Morley progressed through his training into a career in architecture. see more . . .
He determined, however, to become an artist while on a visit to Italy in 1907 and went to Paris to study painting in 1908. He became a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy from 1909 on and The Connoisseurs, his most famous print, was chosen for illustration in Fine Prints of the Year for 1924. In the late 1920’s, he turned to line engraving at the suggestion of Robert Sargent Austin and he went on to become a full member of the Royal Society Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1931.
