• Was an English portrait painter.
• His father was the genre painter George Henry Morland.
• Henry Robert painted in both oil and crayon.
• He was at one time known as Old Morland and he was also an engraver, picture dealer and picture restorer.
• He had a wide circle of influential friends and lived in the house in Leicester Square which was after occupied by
Sir Joshua Reynolds.
• He exhibited some 118 works from 1760 to 1791 at the Society of Artists, the Free Society, and the Royal Academy.
• Morland painted a portrait of George III, the king sitting in person.
• He died on 30 November 1797 at Stephen Street, Rathbone Place, London.
• His wife Maria Morland was also an artist, and exhibited in 1785 and 1786 at the Royal Academy.
• Their son was the celebrated George Morland, one of the most popular painters of his day.
