Returning Forgotten Names: Additional Information on the English Genre Painter George Morland

Abstract

This article brings to the Russian art history sphere a new data about the creative heritage of the English artist of the second half of the 18th century George Morland, and also some unknown facts of his biography. Exclusive information gained from modern and historical foreign sources emphasizes the importance of the artist as an undoubted reformer of the British genre painting. The consideration of two paintings of Morland’s early and mature period gives an opportunity to compare his artistic method in both cases and to prove the radical change of it within a very short period of time. That radical transformation influenced the overwhelming majority of the following English genre painters. Morland’s program genre work is analyzed properly as it became a turning point for the development of the British genre painting in general. Besides, the article draws reader’s attention to the information, missed by previous researchers, about the high demand and relevance of George Morland’s works with his contemporaries in England and on the Continent, in Britain a century after his death and around the world nowadays.

Keywords

genre painting; English art of the 18th century; artist George Morland; the Golden Age of English painting; genre scenes; English painting; English art; English engraving; rural scenes; British art; British painting; British genre painting; 18th century European painting; European art; “Interior of a Stable”;

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Returning Forgotten Names: Additional Information on the English Genre Painter George Morland // Scientific Papers of St Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts'69. . Issues of the Foreign Art Development. 2024 СПб. : СПб. акад. художеств, 2024. 184 с. C. . https://doi.org/10.62625/2782-1889.2024.60.88.005

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