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THE INSIDE OF THE STABLE By GEORGE MORLAND

THE INSIDE OF THE STABLE
BY GEORGE MORLAND (1763-1804)
IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON

Morland was typical of the age he lived in, when men lived hard, and, as his life showed, worked hard also. He died at a comparatively early age, and it is a remarkable testimony to his genius that during his comparatively brief career, punctuated as it was with violent excesses which might well have ruined all capacity for work, he contrived to turn out such a number of masterpieces and to make his mark in the world of art for all time. Even his excesses were turned to account, for upon one occasion, when a friend chided him for keeping very low company in a tavern, he asked how it would otherwise be possible to depict faithfully the scenes of rural life which he wished to paint.

Art was as natural to Morland as breathing. Even the youthful prococity of Millais pales before his early evidence of genius. He was but ten years of age when he exhibited at the Royal Academy for the first time, and before he died thirty-nine of his paintings had been hung at its Exhibitions. Altogether he produced some hundreds of paintings and drawings, although he was always in financial difficulties and was often compelled to change his place of residence to escape his numerous creditors.

"The Inside of a Stable" is considered Morland's masterpiece. It was painted in 1791, and the scene is said to have been laid in the stable of the White Lion Inn at Paddington. One of its greatest charms is its naturalness, for although the various objects in the stable are apparently scattered carelessly, they fit perfectly into the composition, and each one, on examination, is seen to be in its proper place.

From the book "Famous Paintings" Volume 2 printed in 1913.

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Famous Paintings in this Series

James Archer My Great Grandmother	Bashkirtseff The Meeting	Bouguereau Charity	John Brett From the Dorsetshire Cliffs
Arnesby Brown The River Bank	Joseph Clark Mother's Darling	John Constable The Hay-Wain	Jean Baptiste Camille Corot The Fisherman's Hut
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot A Flood	Leonardo Da Vinci Monna Lisa	Edouard Detaille The Dream	Henri Fantin-Latour Flowers
Thomas Gainsborough Queen Charlotte	Thomas Gainsborough The Market Cart	Jean Baptiste Greuze The Head of a Girl	Jean Baptiste Greuze Fidelity
James Clark Hook Home With the Tide	Alfred William Hunt Windsor Castle	Josef Israels The Shipwrecked Mariner	B.W. Leader The Stream in Summer-time
Madame Vigee Le Brun Portrait of the Artist	Alphonse Legros A Canal With a Fisherman	Anton Mauve Watering Horses	J.L.E. Meissonier The Cavalier
Sir J.E. Millais Speak! Speak!	Sir J.E. Mallais My First Sermon	George Morland The Reckoning	George Morland The Inside of a Stable
Murillo The Immaculate Conception of the Virgin	Alfred Parsons When Nature Painted All Things Gay	Ralph Peacock The Sisters	Rembrandt Syndics of the Cloth Merchants' Guild
Guido Reni "Ecce Homo"	Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Mrs. Richard Hoare With Her Infant Son	Briton Riviere The Temptation in the Wilderness	Dante Gabriel Rossetti Day Dreams
John Singer Sargent Miss Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth	Lady Stanley (Dorothy Tennant) His First Offence	Jan Steen Grace Before Meat	Marcus Stone On the Road from Waterloo to Paris
Constant Troyon Watering Cattle	H.S. Tuke "All Hands to the Pumps"	Velazquez King Philip IV. of Spain	S.E. Waller Sweethearts and Wives
Thomas Webster The Smile	Index Famous Paintings Volume 1 Art Gallery	Index Famous Paintings Volume 2 Art Gallery	Index Art Appreciation Lessons