. The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages . d for. In 1786, when George Morland was twenty-three years of age, but wretchedlyold in vice, he married a sister of Ward, the engravers, who, in his turn, married asister of Morlands. It is said that there was a real, and even a lasting attachmentbetween the first couple, but it must have only served for their mutual misery, as itcertainly had not the slightest effect in reclaiming Morland. At this time, Morlands pictures were often sold, like Guidos, with the paint wetupon them, having been executed on the spur of the mome
. The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages . d for. In 1786, when George Morland was twenty-three years of age, but wretchedlyold in vice, he married a sister of Ward, the engravers, who, in his turn, married asister of Morlands. It is said that there was a real, and even a lasting attachmentbetween the first couple, but it must have only served for their mutual misery, as itcertainly had not the slightest effect in reclaiming Morland. At this time, Morlands pictures were often sold, like Guidos, with the paint wetupon them, having been executed on the spur of the moment, while the buyer satover the painter. After a life of gross and shameless dissipation, George Morland died whilelying under an arrest for debt in Eyre Street, Cold Bath Fields, in 1804, when hewas forty-one years of age. His wife fell into convulsion fits upon hearing the newsof his death, and died within four days, in her thirty-seventh year, husband and wifebeing buried together. While living, Morland had dictated his own epitaph— Herelies a drunken do< s= =d i PC - BARRY. 35 James Barry was born at Cork in 1741. If Morland figured as the prodigalamong painters of the last century, Barry was the Wild Irishman, and asimmeasurably self-conceited and arrogant in his dash of nobility as such wild heroesare apt to be. His father was a coasting trader, who kept a small a poor, unknown lad, young Barry painted a picture, the design of which wasfull of poetry and feeling, representing the barbarian king of Cashel, baptized by In the course of the ceremony, the saint unintentionally thrusts his spikedcrozier through the bare foot of the king, who, believing the wound to be part of theinitiation into the Christian life, bears it in heroic silence. This picture appeared atan exhibition in Dublin, and attracted great notice, and, what should have been ofservice to Barry, won him the friendship of a generous benefactor in his greatcountryman, Edmun
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