MR. GEORGE MORLAND.

Drawn from the tolerably authentic source of more than twenty years' intimate

acquaintance with him, his family, and connections.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

A COPIOUS APPENDIX,

Embracing every interesting subject relative to our justly admired
English Painter, and his most valuable works.

BY WILLIAM COLLINS,

Author of the Slave Trade, a Poem; an Ode to Sir Jeffery Dunstan, an Heroic

Effusion; with several detached Pieces in Prose and Verse; several of which have

appeared in most of the public Papers, ander various signatures, since the Yeur

1788, to the present Period.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues

would be proud, if our faults whipp'd them not; and our crines would despair,

if they were not cherished by our virtues.

Shakespeare's All's Well that Ends Well, Act iv. Scene 3.

VOL. II.

London:

PRINTED BY C. STOWER, PÅTER NÖSTER ROH";

For H. D. Symonds, Pater Noster Row; Carpenter, Old Bond

Street; Bell, Oxford Street; Ginger, Piccadilly; and sold

by Lloyd, 23, Harley Street, Cavendish Square ; *

Manson, Gerrard Street, Soho; and by the

Author, 118, Great Fortland Street.

15 NOV 1960

CONTENTS.

VOLUME II.

CHAPTER I.

A GENUINE sketch of the life of the late original, ec-

centric, and justly celebrated genius, G. Morland, the

painter; with a brief account of several of his most

capital productions not generally known clearly evin-

cing him to have been a man of much superior intellect

to what the envy of cotemporary ignorance has falsely

described him

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CHAPTER II,

Further progress of Morland in the arts-His marriage

A brief description of some of his early productions,

which brought him first into public notice

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CHAPTER III.

Morland continues to improve-Trifling disputes arise

between the newly married ladies-A serious fracas

prevented, and the parties separate-Morland and his

bride remove to Great Portland Street, where the author

frequently visits them-Their removal from hence-Mrs.

Morland lies in of her first and only child-Consequences

of that event

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CHAPTER IV.

Morland resolves to leave his house behind Black Cap's,

and removes to a more clegant new-built dwelling, the

corner house of Warren Place, Camden Town-His

great reputation, and opportunity of doing well-

Launches into extravagant habits, &c. .

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CHAPTER V.

The fame of our painter still continues to increase---

Liberal offers from many gentlemen anxious to patronise,

and liberate him from all his difficulties-His own obsti".

nacy defeats their plan-His strange and whimsical

propensities, &c.

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CHAPTER VI.

The painter's liberation from durance- His friends

conceive a hope of his reformation-Schemes of musical

recreation frustrated-Introduction of a stranger to his

brother and sister-Reflections upon the cruel par-

tiality of parents to one child in prejudice to another-

Obliged to remove from town for the sake of study-

What he studied at Paddington-More instances of

extravagance-The loss of his horse, and other whim-

sicalities.

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CHAPTER VII.

Our painter approaches fast to the summit of his ex-

travagance-Becomes tired of Winchester Row-Anec-

dote in proof of the wonderful rapidity of his pencil-

Removes to an elegant house in Upper Charlotte Street,

Fitzroy Square-Invitation to the author to visit him

there What had liked to have been the conse-

quence

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