Howard J. Morgan
Howard James Morgan was a British portrait painter who painted three queens. His work is held in the collection of the National [Portrait Gallery, London].
Life and work
He was born in Denbigh, North Wales, the son of a lay preacher.He specialised in portrait painting and was elected a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1986. In addition to portraits however, he also executed a variety of landscapes and religious works.
In 2004, he married Sarah Milligan, an abstract painter, with whom he had three children, Velvet, a writer, author and poet, Perseus, a musician and Samuel.He was previously married to Susan Sandilands in 1977, with whom he had three children, Alexander, Romilly and Rupert.
Portrait commissions
- HM The Queen
- HM Queen Elizabeth, [the Queen Mother]
- HM The Queen of The Netherlands
- HRH Prince Michael of Kent
- TRH The Prince & Princess of Hanover
- Tom Stoppard
- Philip Larkin
- Francis Crick
- Paul Maurice Dirac
- Dame Antoinette Sibley
- Herbert Norman Howells
- Michael Haynes