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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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ity to her there has never been anyquestion ; susceptible as he was to the attractions ofwomen in his earlier days, once he had made AnnWard his wife, his affections never for a momentstrayed. Women, whether of good or evil report,had absolutely no part in his life. Dawe refers tohis detestation of the crime whose consequences heexhibited in the Laetitia series of pictures ; and inthis regard his life was blameless. Reviewing this singular mans career dispassionately,we may be justified of the belief that but one thingcould have saved him from himself. Had GeorgeMorland been vouchsafed a child or children, hisbiographers might have had a longer and far morepleasing task. The unfortunate painter was always athis best when surrounded by children, and possessionof a family would have gone far to restrain him fromhis unwholesome recreation in public-houses andfrom evil companionship. The pleasures of father- 196 BOY TENDING SHEEPSigned, undated (Size of original iricture )8i X 25 inches.)
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His Life and Works hood—and Morland was obviously a man to whomthose pleasures would have been of the keenest—mighthave kept him straight, where wife, friends, and self-interest miserably tailed. His love of children is the redeeming feature of acharacter in which there is only too much to condemn.Unprincipled he was in money matters, and entirelydevoid of gratitude. With rare power of engagingthe affection of his contemporaries, he seems to havebeen incapable of returning it. But let us do himjustice. It is said, and with truth, that the man wholoves children and animals cannot be a bad man ; andtried by this test, Morland, if not a good one, hadmuch of good in him—greater possibilities of good thancircumstances served to develop. We cannot picturehim surrounded by children in his studio, in the barnat Enderby, or on some village bench, without realisingthis ; we cannot see him, as Collins did in the littleback parlour of an inn, with a large pointer by hisside, a guinea-pig in

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