George Morland, his life and works . yed upon this indifference, but sometimesoverreached himself. He used to obtain, on occasion,from his brother, a man of property, nearly the fullprice of pictures in advance, and Morland was neverin a hurry to finish a work for which he had thus beenpaid : indeed it appears that there was often muchdifficulty in persuading him to complete his under-taking at all. Dealers who had advanced money onpictures to be painted were sometimes obliged to takethem unfinished and place them in the hands of otherartists to be completed. There seems no doubt that while Ir
George Morland, his life and works . yed upon this indifference, but sometimesoverreached himself. He used to obtain, on occasion,from his brother, a man of property, nearly the fullprice of pictures in advance, and Morland was neverin a hurry to finish a work for which he had thus beenpaid : indeed it appears that there was often muchdifficulty in persuading him to complete his under-taking at all. Dealers who had advanced money onpictures to be painted were sometimes obliged to takethem unfinished and place them in the hands of otherartists to be completed. There seems no doubt that while Irwin was aninmate of the house in Warren Place, Morland drankmore than was good for him, though his splendid con-stitution and active habits enabled him to throw offthe effects. Irwin seriously injured his health by try-ing to keep pace with him : when he died, at the ageof five-and-twenty, Morland is said to have referred tohim as the first man he had killed. 68 CHILDREN PLAYING AT SOLDIERS {Size of original picture 28 x 35 inches.). CHAPTER VII It was durins: his residence at Warren Place thatMorland turned his attention to the production of thosepictures of child-life which, through the medium of theengravers art, attained such immense popularity andcontributed so gready to the establishment of his re-putation. He had made one essay in this directionwhile still apprenticed to his father in his ChildrenNutting, which was engraved in mezzotint by , and was originally published in 1783 by J. He evidendy did not repeat the experimentuntil the year 1788. There had grown up about thistime a great demand among the publishers for printsdealing with juvenile subjects, occasioned by the successof those painted by Bigg ^ ; and Morland was inducedto try his hand on works of this description. The first of the series was Children playing BlindMans Buff. An agent of Mr. J. R. Smith, the art William Redmore Bif,^g (i 755-1828) excelled as a painter of first work
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