George Morland: His Life and Works (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from George Morland: His Life and Works

One other notice of Morland belongs to the same year - that contained in the fourth volume of The Eccentric Mirror, by C. H. Wilson, London, 1807.

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Excerpt from George Morland: His Life and Works

Six memoirs at least have been written of George Morland, as well as numerous accounts of him and his works in various books of reference. All the chief works, however, from which information can be obtained are very scarce, and copies of them are to be found in hut few libraries. There were no fewer than four biographies of the artist written very shortly after his death: by William Collins in 1805, F. W. Blagdon in 1806, J. Hassell in the same year, and George Dawe, R.A., in 1807. Of these four, Blagdon's memoir is a valuable one, and on the rare occasions when a copy comes into the market it commands a high price.

The memoir by Dawe - on the whole the best of the four - is almost equally rare, and was reissued in sumptuous form in 1904, richly illustrated with photogravure plates, while that by Collins forms only a part of a curious little volume entitled "Memoirs of a Picture," containing the adventures of many conspicuous characters.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.