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Identifier: georgemorlandhis00gilb (find matches)
Title: George Morland, his life and works
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Gilbey, Walter, Sir, 1834-1914 Cuming, E. D. (Edward William Dirom), 1862-1941
Subjects: Morland, George, 1763-1804
Publisher: London : A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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He must havefound reason to fear that his liberty was in danger, forhe took steps to baffle his enemies by procuring hisown arrest at the hands of friends. On 30th December1799 he was arrested, and on the following day wascommitted to Kings Bench Prison ^ at the instance ofJohn Harris ^ to whom he owed £2,0, and of one A.Battye to whom he owed £1S- ^^ Harris of GerrardStreet had always been a staunch friend to Morland, afine collection of whose pictures he possessed ; and thesum, ;^30, was one which the painter, even in hisworst days, could have quickly paid off with a singlepicture. It is obvious, therefore, that this step wastaken simply to avoid difficulties with more pressingand larger creditors. 1 Slueens Bench Commitment Book, No. 16 ; Public Record Office. 2 Mr. John Harris (1758-1846) was a partner of Mr. Newbery, publisherof the Gentletnans Magazine, and succeeded him in the business. 160 POST-BOYS AND HORSES REFRESHINGSigned, 1794 (Ske of original picture 19 x 25 inches.)
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George Morland Having gone through the form of arrest, for underthese conditions it was little more, Morland was atonce granted the Rules of the Board of Green Cloth,commonly known as the Rules, and took a furnishedhouse in Lambeth Road, St. Georges Fields. Here,nominally a prisoner for debt and therefore safe fromimportunate duns, he settled down with his wife, hisbrother Henry, and his servant, George Sympson.^There was a garden attached to the house, and thisMorland, after his old custom, turned into a menageriewhere he kept the animal and bird models he wantedin his work ; here he had asses, goats, sheep, pigs, andrabbits ; eagles, hawks, and other birds. During his residence in St. Georges FieldsMorland led a more regular though not a moretemperate life, if Dawes statement may be accepted.But something may be said on this latter point on afuture page. The greater regularity he observed wasprobably due to the influence of his brother Henry,for whom from this time forward a very la

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