This Art Book with Foreword and annotated reproductions by Maria Tsaneva contains 96 selected paintings by George Morland.
George Morland (1763 – 1804) was an English painter of animals and rustic scenes. His pictures were of the everyday life of his time, and of the experiences of the folk with whom he mixed, depicted with purity and simplicity, and showing much direct and instinctive feeling for nature. His coloring is mellow, rich in tone, and vibrant in quality. His work necessarily has the defects of his qualities and of his life - in his haste he often seems to have sacrificed some of the power which a more deliberate method might have imparted. Yet, in spite of all, he was one of the greatest masters of The English School, uniting in his work the magic of Gainsborough with the delicacy of an Old Dutch painter. Though he made a speciality of horses, he painted life on the high road and scenes of rural life with marvelous insight and skill. If his women are not great ladies, they still possess a charm and grace of their own; and if his fame rests mainly upon his power of painting animals, his best attributes are shown in the social scenes which he portrayed so faithfully. The finest of Morland's pictures were executed between 1790 and 1794. In the last eight years of his life Morland produced some nine hundred paintings, besides over a thousand drawings.
George Morland (1763 – 1804) was an English painter of animals and rustic scenes. His pictures were of the everyday life of his time, and of the experiences of the folk with whom he mixed, depicted with purity and simplicity, and showing much direct and instinctive feeling for nature. His coloring is mellow, rich in tone, and vibrant in quality. His work necessarily has the defects of his qualities and of his life - in his haste he often seems to have sacrificed some of the power which a more deliberate method might have imparted. Yet, in spite of all, he was one of the greatest masters of The English School, uniting in his work the magic of Gainsborough with the delicacy of an Old Dutch painter. Though he made a speciality of horses, he painted life on the high road and scenes of rural life with marvelous insight and skill. If his women are not great ladies, they still possess a charm and grace of their own; and if his fame rests mainly upon his power of painting animals, his best attributes are shown in the social scenes which he portrayed so faithfully. The finest of Morland's pictures were executed between 1790 and 1794. In the last eight years of his life Morland produced some nine hundred paintings, besides over a thousand drawings.
