George Morland; his life and works . onquer anatural shyness ... he entered the shop, and, havingdrunk a small glass, liked it so very much that he neverafter could forget this premature and unfortunate attach-ment, which accompanied him through life. May wenot surmise that this habit was perhaps the reason for hisbeing withdrawn for a time from the Academy schools ?Much later on, in about his twentieth year, he certain^was at the schools, as Dawe tells us that, unknown to hisfather, he showed some of his drawings to the Keeper, andobtained permission to draw as a candidate for becominga stude
George Morland; his life and works . onquer anatural shyness ... he entered the shop, and, havingdrunk a small glass, liked it so very much that he neverafter could forget this premature and unfortunate attach-ment, which accompanied him through life. May wenot surmise that this habit was perhaps the reason for hisbeing withdrawn for a time from the Academy schools ?Much later on, in about his twentieth year, he certain^was at the schools, as Dawe tells us that, unknown to hisfather, he showed some of his drawings to the Keeper, andobtained permission to draw as a candidate for becominga student; yet ... he drew there only three nights,though he occasionally attended the lectures. From theage of fourteen, however, he was apprenticed to his fatherfor seven years, and this apprenticeship seems to have been atime of very hard study. The father recognised that hShad a very talented pupil, and heWas determined that heshould be well trained. We learn that so just was hiseye, and so remarkable his facility of execution, that he. THE MORLAND FAMILY ii began his chalk drawings from plaster casts withoutprevious sketching, and seldom had occasion to learn also that he copied pictures by the best masters,which his father had for purposes of cleaning and restora-tion, and then it was that the father, as Collins statesmost definitely, on several occasions sold copies by hisson after Ruysdael, Hobbema, and others, for originals. He executed a large number of sea-pieces from prints afterVernet, and of landscapes from highly finished Germandrawings, of which he made enlarged copies, even moreelaborate than the originals. He copied his fathers crayonpictures in oil, also the paintings of Gainsborough, bothof pigs and of dogs; and the celebrated picture of Garrickbetween Tragedy and Comedy, by Sir Joshua Reynolds,then in the possession of Mr. Angerstein. His days, saysDawe, were devoted to painting, his summer evenings toreading, during which time, we are told, he especially
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