The Wreckers Suite

The Wreckers is an oil painting by George Morland in 1791. Surprisingly, there are few documents related to this painting or the artist. After searching the internet, a short description about George Morland came out.\n"He stood alone as a painter of peasant and humble life, and the field he vacated has never been seriously taken up again. In our own time have been several painters who trench upon the ground Morland made his own ; during his lifetime, and ever since, have been painters who treated subjects similar to those which occasionally engaged Morland\x27s brush, such as sport, shipwreck, and child-life ; but the typical Morland, the Morland of the farmyard, of the wayside inn, of the cottage door, remains unrivaled and unchallenged." (Walter Gilbey, Elsenham Hall, July 1907)