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George Morland born 26 June 1763 was an English painter of animals and rustic scenes. He created much of his best work when he lived at Leicester Square.
He was an English painter of animals and rustic scenes, and It is believed that he painted 192 pictures between 1800 and 1804, and he probably painted as many more for other dealers during the same period, his terms being four guineas a day and his drink.'
Another account says that 'during his last eight years he painted 490 pictures for his brother, and probably three hundred more for others, besides making hundreds of drawings.
His total production is estimated at no less than four thousand pictures. In 1802, he was released under the Insolvent Debtors Act, but his health was ruined and his habits irremediable.
About this time he was seized with palsy and lost the use of his left hand, so that he could not hold his palette. Notwithstanding he seems to have gone on painting to the last, when he was arrested again for a publican's score, and died in a sponging-house in Eyre Street, Cold Bath Fields, on 27 October 1804. His wife died three days afterwards, and both were buried together in the burial-ground attached to St.
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