George Henry Morland (died c. 1789) was a British genre painter.

Life

Morland was born early in the eighteenth century. His art at one time was popular, and some of his works, such as ''The Pretty Ballad Singer'' and ''The Fair Nun Unmasked'', were engraved by Watson, and ''The Oyster Woman'' by Philip Dawe. The last of these pictures is now in the

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. In 1760 he was assisted by a grant from the Incorporated Society of Artists. He lived on the south side of

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, and died in 1789 or after.

Family

His son Henry Robert Morland was father of

George Morland George Morland (26 June 176329 October 1804) was an English painter. His early work was influenced by Francis Wheatley, but after the 1790s he came into his own style. His best compositions focus on rustic scenes: farms and hunting; smugglers a ...

References

;Attribution 18th-century British painters British male painters 1780s deaths Year of birth unknown {{UK-painter-18thC-stub