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Howard J. Morgan has been a member of the Royal Society
of Portrait Painters since 1986. His work in this field is exceptional
and reflected in numerous Royal commissions. These include HM
The Queen, HM
The Queen of The Netherlands and HRH
Prince Michael of Kent. A particularly striking portrait of Dame
Antoinette Sibley is another notable commission which, with several
others, is on permanent display at the National Portrait Gallery.
In addition to portraits, Howard J. Morgan also paints landscapes, religious pictures and murals — but his renown will ultimately rest in his conversation pictures which are often profoundly disturbing and tantalizingly indecipherable; demanding but with an underlying humour. He is often compared to Sargent, but a truer comparison would lie with Annibale Carracci, whose stylistic freedom of movement and impastotechnique captured the imagination of post Renaissance Roman patrons. In 1990, the Richmond Gallery devoted
an opening night to just one painting: ‘La
Soirée du Comte Frederique de la Chasseur’ Numerous
other exhibitions have been held at galleries including Anthony Mould,
Claridges, Agnew’s, Cadogan Contemporary Watercolours and The Eaton Gallery. |
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Copyright © Howard J Morgan 2008
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