George Morland

Inscriptionback to top

Signed: Sop^a Jones 1805; on the back is a pencil drawing of a seated woman holding a mixing-bowl.

This portraitback to top

The drawing seems to be a posthumous free copy by Mrs Jones of her original 1792 drawing of Morland's head and shoulders on a canvas under a weeping-willow tree, palette, maulstick, crook and Pan pipes in the foreground, a sunburst of glory behind; this was engraved by K. Mackenzie 'from A Drawing made by Mrs S. Jones, A.D. 1792/Pub^d by J Cunder, Albion Press London' and used by Hassell as frontispiece in 1805. A watercolour copy attributed to T. M. Richardson junior was at Christie's 18 July 1967 (37).

Provenanceback to top

Given by J. J. Byam Shaw (Colnaghi & Co) 1964.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.

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