Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Philip Richard Morris (1836-1902), Genre and marine painter

Self-portrait
By other artists
Photographs

Self-portraitback to top


1882
Oil on canvas, bust to right, in oval, eyes to viewer, wearing red jacket and blue tie; Aberdeen AG, ABDAG004428.


Rejected self-portrait

Oil on board by Philip Richard Morris, three-quarter-length, seated to right; untraced; Lawrence of Crewkerne, 23 & 30 May 1996 (24, ill.).


By other artistsback to top


c.1865
Oil on canvas by Eugen von Blaas; see NPG 6654.

1876
Drawing, 300 x 500mm, by Theodore Blake Wirgman for The Volunteers at Wimbledon – The Artists Corps after a skirmish, inscr. lower left, head-and-shoulders, seated facing forwards, to the right of Valentine Prinsep; untraced. Wood-engr. repr. Graphic, 22 July 1876, p.81; loose print Henry Moore Inst., Leeds, Thornycroft Archive, TII-E69.
See also Brock, Horsley, Leighton, Marks, Prinsep, W.H. Thornycroft, Wynfield.

publ. 1880
Design by Herbert Johnson for A Savage Club Dinner – A Portrait Group, half-length, facing front and holding glass, with full beard, third from the left at top table; untraced. Wood-engr. by unidentified engraver repr. Graphic, 6 Mar. 1880, pp.356–7 (double-page ill.); and Watson 1907, facing p.143 (where entitled ‘The Gladstone Night’ and said to have taken place at the Pall Mall restaurant, Regent St).
See also Armitage, Frith, Gregory, Herkomer, Horsley, Orchardson, W.L. Thomas.

1883
Watercolour sketch by Frank Holl, signed and dated ‘F.H. / 1883’, half-length, profile to right, seated far left, one of nine figures around a table with drawing boards; BM, London, 1914,0128.1.

publ. 1888
Drawing by unidentified artist for Banquet to Sir Coutts Lindsay, head-and-shoulders, three-quarters to left, in oval vignette at bottom right-hand corner; untraced. Repr. Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 31 Mar. 1888, p.74.
See also Lindsay, Whistler.

1891
Black chalk and grey wash drawing, 457 x 292mm, by (William) Walker Hodgson, signed and dated 4 Dec. 1891, three-quarter-length; untraced, ref. Wood 1984, no.22; and see NPG collection 4041(1–5).

publ. 1891
Drawing by Herbert Johnson for Prize Day at the Royal Academy of Arts: A Fair Prize Winner, head-and-shoulders, second from left, back of group, behind Marcus Stone; untraced. Repr. unknown publication, 12 Dec. 1891; copy Kensington & Chelsea L.
See also Calderon, Horsley, Leighton, Stone, Wells.


Photographsback to top


c.1876
Albumen carte-de-visite by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company, almost half-length to left, left arm resting on chairback, right hand on cheek, eyes to viewer; RA, London, 04/1950, presented 1876, signed by the sitter.
Wood-engr. by ‘S.T.’ after this photograph; repr. ILN, 14 July 1877, p.37 (on election ARA).
Drawing by unidentified artist, based on this photograph, vignetted head; repr. ‘The Pictures of 1892’, Pall Mall Gazette ‘Extra’, no.62, 2 May 1892, p.15 (‘Portraits of the RAs and ARAs’).
London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company photograph is probably the best-known image of Morris in his prime.

reg. 1883
Albumen prints by Frank Dudman for J.P. Mayall, two known poses:
(a) full-length, seated in front of an easel, holding palette and brushes, in studio at 33 St John’s Wood Road; reg. for copyright by J.P. Mayall 1883 Sept. 24: National Archives (COPY 1/365/302); The Rob Dickins Coll., Watts G., Compton, COMWG2008.4310.
(b) full-length, reclining on floor reading, head on his left arm, in studio at 33 St John’s Wood Road; The Rob Dickins Coll., Watts G., Compton, COMWG2008.4309; repr. Bills & Webb 2007, p.78, no.117.

publ. 1889
Photograph by unidentified photographer, half-length, slightly to right, head to left, right hand in coat pocket. Repr. The Year’s Art 1889, facing p.284.

publ. 1892
Platinum print by Ralph Winwood Robinson, whole-length, seated to right, at easel, large palette on floor, in studio; colls NPG x7381; and RA, London, 06/1061. Repr. Robinson [1892]. This photograph is not registered at the National Archives but was probably taken at the same time as other prints intended for Robinson’s publication, which were certainly registered in 1889.

c.1900
Photograph by Window & Grove, head-and-shoulders in oval, short white hair, beard and moustache, fur collar. Repr. ILN, 3 May 1902, p. 642 (obits).

Carol Blackett-Ord