George Morland
British, 1763-1804
NationalityBritish
BiographyGeorge Morland was born in London, June 26, ?1763 and died in London, October 29, 1804.Intensely independent, Morland preferred selling finished works through dealers rather than working to the specifications of patrons. He began his career apprenticed to his father, a minor genre painter, who had him copying and forging paintings, particularly seventeenth-century Dutch landscapes. He left his family home at the end of his apprenticeship in 1784 and quickly established himself as a popular painter of rustic landscapes and smuggling scenes. Although his productions were both popular and prolific, and many of them engraved, Morland was plagued by financial problems and alcoholism and produced many slight works for the sake of quick money.
Person TypeIndividual
American, 1805 - 1873
Alternative Names: Hiram Powers
American, 1868 - 1932
Alternative Names: Alfred Henry Maurer
French, 1734 - 1803, active 1754 - 1803
Alternative Names: Charles Nicolas Dodin
British, 1747-1801
Alternative Names: Francis Wheatley
British, 1734-1797
Alternative Names: Joseph Wright of Derby
American, 1850s - 1924
Alternative Names: Arabella (Yarrington) Huntington
British, 1692-1780
Alternative Names: Joseph Highmore
British, 1727-1788
Alternative Names: Thomas Gainsborough
British, 1685 - 1768
Alternative Names: Frederick Frankland
Italian, 1697 - 1768
Alternative Names: Giovanni Antonio Canal
British, 1643 - 1712
Alternative Names: William Robinson, later Sir William Robinson Knt.
British, 1714 - 1782
Alternative Names: Richard Wilson