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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
A view of Gurnhards Bay, near Cowes, Isle of Wight, with fisherfolk on the shore
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George Morland was born on 26 June 1763 in London, the son of the painter H. R. Morland to whom he was first apprenticed for seven years in 1777. He visited Calais and St-Omer in 1785 by which time he was painting sentimental genre scenes, somewhat in the manner of Louis-Leopold Boilly.
In 1786 he married Anne, the sister of William Ward, who engraved sixty-nine of Morland's pictures and who married Morland's sister. In the 1790s he turned to rustic genre, but his later years (showing 500 of 717 characters). |
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