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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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nducted by Mrs. Morlandwith a scrupulous regularity which subjected their children tomore than ordinary restraint, but they were preserved in a stateof uninterrupted health ; and she is herself a remarkable instanceof the effects of exercise and temperance in prolonging activityand cheerfulness to a late period of life. Later biographers of George Morland have statedthat his mother was an artist ; but nothing to justifythis assertion occurs in the works of Dawe, Blagdon,or Hassell. The first-named says definitely that Maria,one of the three daughters of Henry Robert Morland,displayed talents which might have given her respectablerank as an artist, but that she ceased painting when shemarried William Ward. 1 James Ward made three attempts to write the story of his own life,and left a quantity of manuscript notes, of which Miss Julia Frankau hasmade good use in her work, James Ward, R.A., and IVilliam Ward, A.R.J.(1904, Macmillan). 10 DILIGENCE (Size of original pictMrf U^ x 9J inches.)
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CHAPTER 11 George, the eldest of three sons/ was born on the26th June 1763, in the small house in the Haymarketwhither his father had moved after leaving Frith Street.Reared as he was amid the works of art which weresent to Henry Robert Morland to be cleaned or forsale, it was not surprising that at a very early age heshould have amused himself by attempts to draw ; andhe betrayed his genius even sooner than other painterswho have attained to eminence. Landseer is oftencited as an instance of genius declaring itself in tenderyears, inasmuch as he produced pencil drawings whosepromise was unmistakable before he was six years old. ^ Henry Robert Morlands other children were : Henrj-, who, as a boy,ran away to sea, and returning to England, became acquainted with hisbrother George in the earlier years of his married life ; Edwanl, who alsoran away from home, and was never heard of again ; Maria, who marriedWilliam W^ard ; Jane, whose name is known to us only by reason ot thefact that she

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