(1823 - 1885)
John Morgan was born in London. He studied at the Royal Academy School of Design, before working as a frame maker. He went on to become a genre painter, particularly renowned for painting of children, and exhibited 223 works in London between 1852 and 1886. By 1860 he was living in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, where he remained until the mid-1860s. He was in Edinburgh in 1866, in Leighton Buzzard by 1867 and had returned to London by 1870, briefly settling in Kensington. By 1871 he had moved to Guildford, from where he painted Surrey landscapes. He married twice and had five children. His eldest son, Frederick, also became a painter. In 1875 Morgan travelled to the Holy Land. He moved to Hastings in 1882, where he died three years later.
