Excerpt from The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Vol. 2
George Morland, the eldest son of Henry Robert Morland, was born in the Haymarket, London, on the 20th of June, 1763. He came of a race of painters. He was lineally descended from Sir Samuel Morland, an eminent mathematician and artist; his grandfather was a painter, and lived in the lower side of St. James's Square; and his father, after the failure of some extensive speculations, which all his biographers have alluded to, but left undescribed, followed the same profession, and painted, drew, and dealt in pictures with such indifferent success, that lie became bankrupt, and was compelled to bring up his family of three sons and two daughters in indigence and obscurity.
It, is said that the elder Morland sought to repair his broken fortunes by the talents of his son George - who, almost as soon as he escaped from the cradle, took to the pencil and crayon, and showed that he inherited art the natural way. The indications of early talent in others arc nothing compared to his.
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