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traits pleafed, and a very great number 
of them were begun: but his unfortunate 
miaxvaije bonie vendered the undertaking 
waprefitable. The tociety of elegant 
women, er rational men, made him feel 
his own ignorance and infignificance : 
hence every btter was an objcéct of difguit, 
The pig races, and fuch e/erant amufe- 
ments as are prejected for the lower order 
ef vihtors to Margate, obtained all his 
attention; acd the portraits which a 
carcful man would have finifhed on the 
feet, and got paid for before the par- 
ties had quitted the place, were left to be 
completed ia town. Inftcad of ‘returning 
home with his packets full of money, le 
only brought a large cargo of unfinifhed 
canvalics; and as the engagements of the 
“a ering place are forgo’ten in the capital, 
very few of them were afterwards finithed. 
But theugh in this expedition he got 
but little movey, he gaincd feveral peints 
that were of much, and might have gained 
ethers that would have been of more, con- 
fequence to him: he was talked of as an 
artift of confiderabie talents ; he- was 
emancipated from paternal au.hority, and 
new, initead of handing a iketch flyly out 
ofthe window, to get a few fhillings, be 
did whatever he pleafed and fixed what 
price he thought preper upon his own 
work: le made many acquaintances too, 
who, unfortunately, contributed to fix 
his chara€ter for lite. 
Artuts are prone to comp'ain that thep 
are negle€tcd, and their works not fo much 
encouraged as the works of muficians and 
the profeflors of other arts; much of this 
may he true, but more of it tsto be attri- 
buted to the condu& of artifis them/felves. 
The gentleman who patreniies any liberal 
art has {omething more in view than the 
mere acquifitton ef the works of that art 
which he admires: he Pkes the art itfelf; 
perbaps he undeifiards i, or at leaft he 
thinks he does ; he wifes to converle with 
the artilt upon his own art, invites him to 
his heufe, and forms an intimacy with him, 
as far as the difference of tneir fituations 
allow ; what now is the cenlequence ? 
he mufician praétifes his art in the 
prefence cf thofe by whom he is empleyed ; 
when not aciually employed, he ail-ciates 
wich his patron, and by this means acquires 
an inclination for the habits of genteel} lite ; 
and, tf he is a man of the world, trans- 
furms his patron into a friend, the cenfe- 
quences of which are beneficial to himfelf ; 
but few artifts have the education of gen- 
tlemen, or a tefe for the enjoyments of 
gentce! life; their enjoyments are d. ferent, 
and ; lace them in a differen: clals ; manya 
Memirs of George Morland. 
[Dec. 1, 
gentleman has taken a painter into the 
country, for the f{ummer, to employ and 
recommend him ameng his connettions ; 
he paints in a room by himfelf, and is 
fummoned to dine with the family ; he 
finds the fociety irkfome, becaufe the con- 
verjation turns upon topics which are not 
familiar to him; the next day he evades 
the fummons to dinner, by pretending the 
neceflity of finifhing fome part of his pic- 
ture, and af e:wards makes himlelf com< 
furtable in the fteward’s room, or butler’s 
pantry 3 and here he ventures to fix his 
tation during the time he flays, unleis he 
makes an excurfion into the neighbouring 
village, and joins the company which the 
ale-houfe affords ; his patron, finding this 
to be the cafe, thinks no more about him 
till his work is done, when he pays and 
difmiffes him. Can fuch men cemplaia 
that ¢hey are neglected, or that their tler 
art, which certainly ranks high among 
the liberal ones, does not procure them 
more refpeét than is paid to common work. 
men, with whom their own conduét has a 
flrong tendency te confeund them? , 
The younger part of fuch men now be. 
came the compenions of George Morland ; 
with them he was equal in intelleét, and 
fuperior to them in talent ; he was fupe- 
rior to them too, in a circumitance that 
will always obtain from fuch beings what 
ignorant men covet, the adulation ef their 
affociates. A ride into the country to a 
fmock-race, or a grinning-match, a jolly 
dinner and drinking bout after it, a mad 
{camper home, with a flounce into the 
mud, and two or three other et ceferas, 
formed the fum of their enjoyments ; of 
thefe Meriand had as much as he defired ; 
and, as he was the rchelt of the fet, by 
the community of properiy  eftablifhed 
among fuch jolly dogs, he commonly paid 
for them more than his fhare, 
Abbui this time he married, and became 
acquainted: with Mr. I. R. Smith, the 
engraver, who then dealt largely in prints s 
for this gentleman he painted many pic- 
tures of fubjects fr.m the familiar feenes of 
life. The fubjeS&ts were kuown to, end the 
fen:iments they conveyed were felt by ail, 
and the prints which Mr. Smith made frona 
them had a fale, rapid beyond exampley. 
and {pread the fame of Morland all over 
the continent as well as the kingdom. 
Thefe fubjects were, in all probabiiity, fug- 
gefted by the taille of Mr. Smith, as they 
difplayed more fentiment thin Morlind 
ever icemed to poffe/s on sny other occafion : 
his own tslent, as it now burft forth in 
full fplendour, was landfcape, fuch as it 
exills in fequeftered fituations, and with 
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