Henry Robert Morland

Henry Robert Morland (1716/1719 – 30 November 1797)[1] was an English portrait painter, best remembered for a portrait of King George III, and for being the father of the animal painter George Morland.

For at least one period during his early manhood he seems to have been in comfortable circumstances for he had a wide circle of influential friends and lived in the house in Leicester Square which was after occupied by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Morland even painted a portrait of George III, the king sitting in person.

[2] His best known pictures, per Bryan, 1906[4], include the following: Lady's Maid soaping Linen 1769, engraved by Philip Dawe in the same year, the Oyster Seller, the Connoisseur and Tired Boy 1773, of which an engraving by Philip Dawe was published on November 1 of that year, Girl ironing some Sleeves 1774, the unlucky Boy tickling a Girl's Nose, a portrait of General Sir Eyre Coote 1782 a portrait of the courtesan Fanny Murray and a Woman shading a candle.

He died on 30 November 1797 at Stephen Street, Rathbone Place, London, after having led an unsettled life.