John Morgan was a successful English genre artist.

Born in Pentonville

Pentonville

Pentonville is an area of north-central London in the London Borough of Islington, centred on the Pentonville Road. The area is named after Henry Penton, who developed a number of streets in the 1770s in what was open countryside adjacent to the New Road...

 London

London

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, Morgan studied at the School of Design, London and also trained in Paris under Thomas Couture

Thomas Couture

Thomas Couture was an influential French history painter and teacher. Couture taught such later luminaries of the art world as Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Karel Javůrek, and J-N Sylvestre.-Life:He was born at Senlis, Oise, France...

 (1815-1879). Whilst living in Aylesbury

Aylesbury

Aylesbury is the county town of Buckinghamshire in South East England. However the town also falls into a geographical region known as the South Midlands an area that ecompasses the north of the South East, and the southern extremities of the East Midlands...

 in 1861, he found fame with his paintings "Gentlemen of the Jury" and "The Country Auction". A member of the Society of British Artists

Royal Society of British Artists

The Royal Society of British Artists is a British art body established in 1823 as the Society of British Artists, as an alternative to the Royal Academy.-History:...

 (SBA), his work was influenced by Thomas Webster

Thomas Webster (painter)

Thomas Webster , was an English genre painter, who lived for many years at the artists' colony in Cranbrook.-Life:Webster was born in Ranelagh Street, Pimlico, London...

 and William Powell Frith

William Powell Frith

William Powell Frith , was an English painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the Victorian era. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1852...

.

Morgan died in Hastings in 1885. His son Frederick Morgan

Frederick Morgan (painter)

Frederick Morgan , was an English painter of portraits, animals, domestic and country scenes. He became famous for his idyllic genre scenes of childhood.Morgan was born in London...

 was an equally popular artist, most noted for "His Turn Next", famously used by the Pears Soap

Pears soap

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advertising campaign.

External links

• John Morgan (Buckinghamshire County Museum)
• Art by John Morgan (Artnet)
• Which hand is it? (Painting, 1865)
• The Lion and the Lamd (Painting, 1861)