George Morland
George Morland (born June 26, 1763 London - died October 29, 1804 London) was born into an impoverished noble family. His father Henry Robert Morland (c. 1719-1797) and his grandfather were painters. Morland is a master of genre scenes, a remarkable landscape painter and animal painter, known in the history of art of the 18th century as a singer of the English countryside. Heir to the realistic traditions of Dutch painting, he was the first artist in England to paint scenes from peasant life.A contemporary of J. Reynolds and J. - J. Rousseau, F. Schiller and J. - W. Goethe, Morland lived in the era of the incipient crisis of the ideas of the Enlightenment and the emerging romanticism in art. in his work, the artist goes from genre works of a moral character to paintings of an alarming, sensual state of nature.
