Philip Richard Morris
Philip Richard Morris was an English painter of genre and maritime scenes, Holman Hunt-influenced religious paintings and portraits.
Life and Works
Morris was born in Devonport. Taken to London aged 14 by his iron-founder father to train for the family trade, Philip became increasingly interested in art and, with William Holman Hunt winning round his father, began taking evening drawing classes in the British Museum and in the Royal Academy Schools. At the latter, he used the travelling studentship he won for his The Good Samaritan to fund a journey to Italy and France, remaining there until 1864.Morris was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1877, though he resigned it in 1900. In 1878 he married a widow, Catherine Sargeantson, the daughter of J. Evans of Llangollen, they had two sons and three daughters. Catherine died in 1886.
During 1902, Philip and Catherine's daughter Gladys Hill Morris, married the noted British sportsman, author, journalist and editor, Bertram Fletcher Robinson. Her younger sister, Florence Mariane Morris married the archaeologist, Alexander Keiller in 1913.