George W. Morrison, American, Canadian, 1820 to 1893, watercolor painting on paper, Bangor Bay Co. Down. Signed lower left. Matted. Inscribed in the print, G. W. Morrison, lower right. Titled in the print lower. George Morrison is an American artist, known for Portrait and landscape painting. He was a native of Baltimore and had learned the craft there in his teens. No doubt he was a student of Rembrandt and Raphael Peale, famous painter sons of an even more famous painter father, Charles Dilson Peale. The Peales operated the only art school in Baltimore at that time. When Morrison moved west to seek his fortune, he first went to Connersville, Indiana, at the head of the Whitewater River Valley, an area early known for its support of art and learning. But he apparently was unable to find there a sufficient volume of work, for within a year he was in New Albany. He announced his arrival with a small advertisement in the New Albany Gazette and invited the public to examine specimens of his work at his studio on Main Street near Bank. The public liked what they saw, for soon the commissions began coming in and many of the portraits he painted are still prize possessions of New Albany families. Others are at the New Albany Public Library, and one hangs in the State House in Indianapolis, his portrait of Ashabel P. Willard, the governor from New Albany. One of a kind artwork.