Alfred Morgan (painter)

Alfred Morgan (1836 - 1924) was a British painter. His three children also became artists.[1]

Several of Morgan's artworks are at the Victoria and Albert Museum including framed paintings as well as murals decorating the museum's architecture.[2] Morgan painted a portrait of Inigo Jones that was the basis for a mosaic at what was then the South Kensington Museum, one of 35 mosaic depictions of famous artists at the museum's South Court.[3] Several of his works were part of the International Health Exhibition of 1884.[4]

Morgan studied at South Kensington School of Art. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and produced still lifes, genre pictures, portraits, landscape paintings, paintings of historical and scriptural subjects,[3] and murals such as a lunette painting at the South Kennsington Museum.[5]

His sons were Alfred Kedington Morgan (23 July 1868 - 14 April 1828), Owen Baxter Morgan (9 April 1873 - 29 August 1920) and daughter Ethel Mahala Morgan (5 September 1875 – 22 December 1926).[1] His eldest was a master at Rugby School[6] and married fellow artist Gertrude Ellen Hayes.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Suffolk Artists - MORGAN, Alfred". suffolkartists.co.uk.
  2. ^ "A Pottery Shop | Morgan, Alfred | V&A Search the Collections". V and A Collections. July 10, 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Inigo Jones | Morgan, Alfred | V&A Search the Collections". V and A Collections. July 10, 2019.
  4. ^ "The Health Exhibition Literature. ..." W. Clowes & Sons. July 10, 1884 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ "Sketching from Nature | Morgan, Alfred | V&A Search the Collections". V and A Collections. July 10, 2019.
  6. ^ Dolman, Bernard (July 10, 1927). Who's who in Art. Art Trade Press – via Internet Archive. Alfred Morgan kensington.