George Morland (1763–1804)

• Was an English painter.
• His early work was influenced by Francis Wheatley. 
• His best compositions focus on rustic scenes: farms and hunting; smugglers and gypsies; and rich, textured landscapes informed by Dutch Golden Age painting.
• He was set by his father to copy pictures of all kinds, but especially of the Dutch and Flemish masters.
• He was introduced to Sir Joshua Reynolds, and obtained permission to copy his pictures.
• Among others he copied Fuseli's Nightmare and Reynolds's Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy.
• Before he was seventeen he had obtained considerable reputation not only with his friends and the dealers, but among artists of repute.
• He taught himself to play the violin.
• In the last eight years of his life Morland produced some nine hundred paintings, besides over a thousand drawings.
• He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy from 1784 down to 1804.
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