Identifier: georgemorlandhis00gilb (find matches)
Title: George Morland, his life and works
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Gilbey, Walter, Sir, 1834-1914 Cuming, E. D. (Edward William Dirom), 1862-1941
Subjects: Morland, George, 1763-1804
Publisher: London : A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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f gin and the mishap with theMaster of Ceremonies coat. But on the whole thepicture of George Morland we can piece together fromhis letters is not an unpleasing one. It is that of ahigh-spirited young man enjoying life after the fashionof his fellows, earning the while enough money tokeep himself in comfort ; esteemed for his abilitiesand popular for his personal characteristics. The atmo-sphere of the society in which he lived is suggested inthat passage of his letter to Philip Dawe which explainswhy all his male sitters disappointed him on a certainoccasion,—almost everybody in Margate was drunk :the artist himself, let it be noted, was one of the fewexceptions. It is ridiculous to argue that because hewas impatient of the society of Mrs. Hills oldmaids he disliked that of all respectable people ; butenough has already been said on this point to disprovethe suggestion of Hassell that he gave up portrait-painting because the society of fashionable ladies or 52 CAROLINE OF LICHTFELD
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His Life and Works gentlemen of polished manners was ... an object ofsupreme abhorrence, which made every sitting amatter of extreme disgust to him. We next find Morland with Mrs. Hill at St. Omer,which at this period was inhabited by a considerableEnglish colony. He writes to Philip Dawe giving avivid description of the discomforts of the rough cross-ing from Dover to Calais ; which crossing, it is inter-esting to observe, was the most amazing quick passageknown these twelve years, twas no longer than onehour and thirty-two minutes from Pier to Pier. Theirfirst business on arrivins; at the Hotel dAn^leterre wasto get dry after being drenched on board the packet.Modern travellers may be interested to know thatalthough the boat arrived at Calais about half-past two,they had supper and tea, and sat up till they sent ourthings from the Custom House, and then the fille dechambre lit me up to bed. Next morning they set out in a coach and four toSt. Omer, where they arrived soon after three

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