John Morgan (1822–1885) was a British

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artist.

Life

Born in Pentonville, north

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, Morgan studied at the School of Design, London and also trained in Paris under

Thomas Couture Thomas Couture (21 December 1815 – 30 March 1879) was a French history painter and teacher. He taught such later luminaries of the art world as Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge,Wilkinson, Burke. ''The Life and Works of A ...

(1815–1879). Whilst living in

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in 1861, he found fame with his paintings ''The Jury'' and ''The Country Auction''.

Career

A member of the Society of British Artists (SBA), his work was influenced by Thomas Webster and William Powell Frith. His son Frederick Morgan was an equally popular artist, most noted for ''His Turn Next'', famously used by the Pears Soap advertising campaign.''The Jury''.

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exhibition catalogue He died in

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References

External links

''The Jury'' at Bucks County Museumabout the artist

The Auction painting
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The Lion and the Lamb
' (painting, 1861) 1822 births 1885 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters 19th-century English male artists {{England-painter-stub