Brief Biography-George Morland was born in London in 1763, the son of painter Henry Robert Morland. He exhibited at the Royal Academy when he was ten years of age. Dutch artists such as David Teniers influenced his work. When he finished his apprenticeship to his father in 1784, he sold his paintings through an Irish dealer who charged an admission fee of half-a-crown into his picture gallery. His paintings excelled through the publications of mezzotints, and he amassed a good deal of wealth. He kept at his house in Paddington a variety of animals for painting, and he was fond of painting pigs, but he, unfortunately, squandered much of his money and fled the bailiffs to Cowes. In 1802 in London, he was arrested and made to clear his debts. However, after a second stroke, he was arrested again for debt. They sent him to a tavern of temporary confinement for debtors called a sponging-house, where he died in 1804. Four days later, his wife died of shock. Morland was regularly a painter of genre scenes.