John Charles Morris (fl. 1851-1889) |
Research by Marjorie Gregson
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John Charles Morris was born c1813 and flourished between 1851
and 1889. He was working in Greenwich and Deptford, London from 1851 to 1863 and painted Waiting for Master with Richard Ansdell in 1865. A painter of landscapes, genre and animals, Morris exhibited at the Royal Academy (1851-2), the British Institute and the Royal Society of British Artists, Suffolk Street and had been a pupil of T Sidney Cooper. His other paintings include A Sketch on the Mountains, Argyllshire 1856 A Runaway at the Wrong Door 1862 Highland Sheep with Shepherd Drover and Sheep Resting by a Coastal Path Sheep in Upland Landscape A Well Guarded Flock Sheep 1859 New Art Gallery, Walsall Morris has paintings in the Rossendale Museum and in the Russell Cotes Museum, Bournemouth. |
References
Dictionary of Victorian Paintings by Christopher Wood British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections by Christopher Wright and Catherine May Gordon |
