George Morland

British, 1763 - 1804

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British artist (1763-1804)

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A hunting party with eight men mostly on horseback and nine dogs gather around a fox being attacked by two dogs in this horizontal landscape painting. The men wear or hold black caps and have jackets in cardinal red or parchment white, and one is in teal blue. The horses are silvery white, chestnut brown, or black. At the center, near the fox, one man dismounts, and another stands to our right of the group. The hounds are white with black and tan spots, and they rush toward the rust-brown fox. The hunters and dogs form a loose line across a grassy area, which is backed with a steeply rising but low hill, topped by trees with feathery canopies. The grass and leaves are painted in tones of sage green and harvest gold. A smudge of brick red in a crevice of the hill could be a person watching from the shadows. One rider on a white horse gives chase in the distance to our left, and the land dips down and back to row of houses along the crest of a rolling hill. Thin screens of white and pale gray clouds float across a pale blue sky above.
George Morland, The Death of the Fox, c. 1791/1794, oil on canvas, Widener Collection, 1942.9.43

The Death of the Fox

George Morland · c. 1791/1794 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1942.9.43

George Morland, The Mid-Day Meal, 1790s, graphite with colored chalks on wove paper, Gift of William B. O'Neal, 1995.52.122

The Mid-Day Meal

George Morland · 1790s · graphite with colored chalks on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1995.52.122

George Morland, Anne Ward Morland, c. 1786, graphite with black and red chalk on laid paper, Gift of the Monica and Hermen Greenberg Foundation in honor of Monica Lind Greenberg, 2008.47.2

Anne Ward Morland

George Morland · c. 1786 · graphite with black and red chalk on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2008.47.2

Bibliography

1805

  • Collins, William. "...Biographical Sketch of...George Morland." In Memoirs of a Picture. 3 vols. London, 1805: vol. 2.

1807

  • Dawe, George. The Life of George Morland. London, 1807.

1904

  • Williamson, George C. George Morland: His Life and Works. London, 1904.

1907

  • Gilbey, Sir Walter and E. D. Cuming. George Morland: His Life and Works. London, 1907.

1954

  • Thomas, David. George Morland. Exh. cat. Tate Gallery, London, 1954.

1977

  • Winter, David. "George Morland (1763-1804)." Ph.D. diss., Stanford University, 1977.

1980

  • Barrell, John. The Dark Side of the Landscape. Cambridge, 1980: 89-129.

1992

  • Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 176-177.