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24-611: William Morgan may refer to: Arts and entertainment [ edit ] William De Morgan (1839–1917), pottery and tile designer in Britain William Morgan (director) (1899–1964), English film director and editor William Michael Morgan (born 1993), American country music singer William Evan Charles Morgan , artist, etcher and engraver Military [ edit ] William H. Morgan (1831–?), American general William Duthie Morgan (1891–1977), general in

48-470: A " Persian " palette: dark blue, turquoise, manganese purple, green, Indian red, and lemon yellow. Study of the motifs of what he referred to as "Persian" ware (and what we know today as 15th and 16th-century İznik ware ), profoundly influenced his unmistakable style, in which fantastic creatures entwined with rhythmic geometric motifs float under luminous glazes. The pottery works was beset by financial problems, despite repeated cash injections from his wife,

72-754: A duplex bicycle gear and lured him into complex studies of the chemistry of glazes, methods of firing, and pattern transfer. Between 1882 and 1900, De Morgan was commissioned by T. E. Colcutt to produce tile panels for the public rooms of 12 P&O liners. This followed an earlier commission in 1880, to produce similar panels for the Tsar's yacht, Livadia . De Morgan's decoration of pottery included chargers, rice dishes and vases. Some of these were made in his works, but many were bought as biscuit ware from Wedgwood and others and decorated by De Morgan's workers. Some were signed by his decorators including Charles Passenger, Fred Passenger, Joe Juster and Miss Babb. De Morgan

96-630: A pottery in Chelsea , where he stayed until 1881 —his most fruitful decade as an art potter. The arts and crafts ideology he was exposed to through his friendship with Morris and his insistent curiosity led De Morgan to begin to explore every technical aspect of his craft. His early efforts at making his own tiles during his Chelsea Period were of variable technical quality—often amateurish with firing defects and irregularities. In his early years, De Morgan made extensive use of blank commercial tiles. Hard and durable biscuit tiles of red clay were obtained from

120-759: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages William De Morgan William Frend De Morgan (16 November 1839 – 15 January 1917) was an English potter, tile designer and novelist. A lifelong friend of William Morris , he designed tiles, stained glass and furniture for Morris & Co. from 1863 to 1872. His tiles often recall medieval or Islamic design patterns. He applied innovative glazes and firing techniques. Galleons and fish were common motifs, as were "fantastical" birds and animals. Many of De Morgan's tiles were designed to create intricate patterns when several were laid together. Born in Gower Street, London,

144-712: Is in the Dunedin Public Art Gallery in New Zealand. The National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa has a good collection of William De Morgan's work given by Ruth Amelia Jackson in 1997 but much of it is kept in store. De Morgan's work is also present in many major collections with decorative art including the Art Gallery of Ontario , Toronto, Canada, the Musée d'Orsay , Paris, Manchester Art Gallery and

168-710: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge . A number of properties in the UK open to the public have tiles and pottery on display or incorporated in the building's decoration. They include Wightwick Manor (the National Trust, Wolverhampton), Standen (the National Trust, East Grinstead), Blackwell (Lakeland Arts Trust, Windermere), Leicester Secular Hall and Leighton House (London Borough of Kensington). His ceramics, papers and artworks by both de Morgans, were collected by his sister-in-law after his death. These are now

192-660: The Patent Architectural Pottery Co. in Poole . Dust pressed tiles of white earthenware were bought from Wedgwood , Mintons and other manufacturers but De Morgan believed these would not stand frost. He continued to use blank commercial dust-pressed tiles which were decorated in red lustre into his Fulham Period (1888–1907). However, he developed a high-quality biscuit tile of his own, which he admired for its irregularities and better resistance to moisture. His inventive streak led him to spend hours designing

216-807: The Victoria and Albert Museum , and the William Morris Gallery in London, a substantial and representative collection in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery , and a small but well-chosen collection along with much other pottery at Norwich . There was an exhibition of his work and of that of his wife, Evelyn, at the De Morgan Centre in Wandsworth, London (part of Wandsworth Museum ) from 2002 until 2014. His Dragon Charger

240-563: The pre-Raphaelite painter Evelyn De Morgan (née Pickering) , and a partnership with the architect Halsey Ricardo . This partnership was associated with a move for the factory from Merton Abbey to Fulham in 1888. During the Fulham period De Morgan mastered many of the technical aspects of his work that had previously been elusive, including complex lustres and deep, intense underglaze painting that did not run during firing. However, this did not guarantee financial success, and in 1907 De Morgan left

264-549: The 1920s Bill Morgan (disambiguation) Billy Morgan (disambiguation) Morgan (surname) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Morgan&oldid=1213337943 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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288-562: The Bible William Morgan (anti-Mason) (1774–1826?), New York businessman whose book on Freemasonry and subsequent disappearance sparked the U.S. anti-Masonic movement William Morgan (1782–1858) , Welsh evangelical cleric in Bradford William Morgan (architect) (1930–2016), American architect and author See also [ edit ] William Morgan Butler (1861–1937), U.S. political figure in

312-2994: The British Army after whom the Morgan Line was named William J. Morgan (historian) (1917–2003), Senior Historian at the U.S. Naval Historical Center and editor of Naval Documents of the American Revolution William Alexander Morgan (1928–1961), American who fought in the Cuban Revolution William B. Morgan , American naval architect William D. Morgan (1947–1969), Medal of Honor recipient, U.S. Marine killed in action in Vietnam Politics [ edit ] United Kingdom [ edit ] William Morgan (died 1602) , MP for Haslemere William Morgan (died 1569) , MP for Monmouthshire William Morgan (died 1582) , MP for Monmouthshire William Morgan (died 1583) (1542–1583), MP for Monmouth Boroughs William Morgan (of Tredegar) (1560–1653), Welsh politician William Morgan (of Rhymny) , Welsh politician William Morgan (of Dderw) (died 1649), Welsh lawyer and politician William Morgan (of Machen and Tredegar) (c. 1640–1680), Member of Parliament for Monmouthshire 1659–1680 Sir William Morgan (of Tredegar, elder) (1700–1731), Member of Parliament for Brecon, 1722–1723, and Monmouthshire, 1722–1731 William Morgan (of Tredegar, younger) (1725–1763), Member of Parliament for Monmouthshire, 1747–1763 William Morgan (abolitionist) (1815–c. 1890), town clerk in Birmingham, England William Pritchard Morgan (1844–1924), British Member of Parliament for Merthyr Tydfil, 1888–1900 W. E. Morgan (William Evan Morgan, 1858–1916), Welsh trade union leader William James Morgan (1914–1999), Irish politician United States [ edit ] William S. Morgan (1801–1878), U.S. Representative from Virginia William Duane Morgan (1817–1887), American newspaper editor and politician William Augustine Morgan (1831-1899), Virginia planter, Confederate cavalry officer, early West Virginia politician William J. Morgan (New York politician) (1840–1900), New York State comptroller, 1899–1900 William Albert Morgan (1841–1917), Irish-American newspaper publisher and politician William Yoast Morgan (1866–1932), lieutenant governor of Kansas William McKendree Morgan (1869–1942), Idaho lawyer and politician William M. Morgan (congressman) (1870–1935), U.S. Representative from Ohio William J. Morgan (Wisconsin politician) (1883–1983), Wisconsin Attorney General William Fellowes Morgan Jr. (1889–1977), president of

336-661: The De Morgan Collection is on long-term loan to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. There are also other, temporary exhibitions from the collection from time to time. William Albert Morgan Morgan's father James Morgan was an Irish wool comber, farmer and stock raiser. He came to America in 1847 with his four sons after the death of his wife Katherine in 1845, settling in Cincinnati . William Morgan

360-902: The Middle Atlantic Oyster Fisheries, and later Commissioner of Public Markets for New York City Will Morgan (born 1966), member of the Minnesota House of Representatives Other politicians [ edit ] William Morgan (South Australian politician) (1828–1883), Premier of South Australia, 1878–1881 William Morgan (New South Wales politician) (1842–1907), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1894–1901 William Morgan (Canadian politician) (1848–after 1890), politician in Ontario, Canada William Morgan (New Zealand politician) (1851–1918), member of

384-1136: The New Zealand Legislative Council Science and medicine [ edit ] William Morgan (cartographer) (died 1690), English cartographer William Morgan (actuary) (1750–1833), Welsh scientist and actuary who won the Copley Medal in 1789 William Fellowes Morgan Sr. (1861–1943), president of the National Association for the Prevention of Blindness William Wilson Morgan (1906–1994), American astronomer W. Jason Morgan (1935–2023), American geophysicist G. William Morgan (died 1984), American health physicist William Morgan (Navajo scholar) (1917-2001), Navajo linguist Sports [ edit ] William Morgan (cricketer, born 1862) (1862–1914), Welsh cricketer William Morgan (cricketer, born 1864) (1864–1934), English cricketer William G. Morgan (1870–1942), American inventor of

408-754: The United States as well as the United Kingdom. This was followed by An Affair of Dishonour , Alice-for-Short , and the two-volume It Never Can Happen Again (1909). The genre has been described as "Victorian and suburban". De Morgan died of trench fever in London in 1917, and was buried in Brookwood Cemetery . Recollections praise him for his personal warmth and the indomitable energy with which he pursued his kaleidoscopic career as designer, potter, inventor and novelist. Collections of De Morgan's work exist in many museums, including

432-835: The collection of the De Morgan Foundation . Long-term loans of these artworks can be seen at Cannon Hall at Cawthorne in Barnsley, with a selection of both William's and Evelyn's work on display in the exhibition 'A Family of Artists', and at Watts Gallery in Surrey and in the De Morgan Collection exhibition in the Malthouse Gallery at Wightwick Manor , a National Trust Arts & Crafts house in Wolverhampton . A selection of ceramics from

456-736: The game of volleyball William Llewellyn Morgan (1884–1960), Welsh international rugby union player William A. Morgan (footballer) (born 1914, date of death unknown), English footballer who played as goalkeeper for Coventry City F.C. William Morgan (rugby league) , rugby league footballer of the 1930s for Wales, and Wigan Sack Morgan (William Lee Morgan), American baseball player William James Morgan aka Jimmy Morgan (1922–1975), English footballer and Royal Marines Commando Willie Morgan (born 1944), Scottish footballer William Morgan (judoka) (born 1975), Canadian Paralympic judo competitor Others [ edit ] William Morgan (Bible translator) (1545–1604), Welsh translator of

480-483: The pottery, which continued under the Passenger brothers, the leading painters at the works. "All my life I have been trying to make beautiful things", he said at the time, "and now that I can make them nobody wants them." De Morgan turned his hand to writing novels, and became better known than he ever had been for his pottery. His first novel, Joseph Vance , was published in 1906, and was an instant sensation in

504-760: The son of the distinguished mathematician Augustus De Morgan and his highly educated wife Sophia Elizabeth Frend , De Morgan was supported in his desire to become an artist. At the age of twenty, he entered the Royal Academy schools, but he was swiftly disillusioned with the establishment. Then he met Morris and through him the Pre-Raphaelite circle. Soon De Morgan began experimenting with stained glass, ventured into pottery in 1863, and by 1872 had shifted his interest wholly to ceramics, initially working in Fitzroy Square . In 1872, De Morgan set up

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528-648: Was a Republican and in 1879 he represented Chase County in the state legislature. From 1893-5 he was a state senator , active in promoting prohibition . In 1891 he was part of a government commission which negotiated a treaty with the Paiute residents of the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation in Nevada; the treaty was never ratified by Congress. Morgan was involved with the Grand Army of

552-646: Was educated in the public schools and at thirteen entered a printing office to learn that trade. During the Civil War he served in the 23rd Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry , rising to be a first lieutenant after 3 years service. Morgan returned to the printing business and remained in Cincinnati until 1871, when he moved to Cottonwood Falls , Kansas and started the Chase County Leader newspaper, continuing it until his retirement in 1903. He

576-531: Was particularly drawn to Eastern tiles. Around 1873–1874, he made a striking breakthrough by rediscovering the technique of lustreware (marked by a reflective, metallic surface) found in Hispano-Moresque pottery and Italian maiolica . Nor was his interest in the East limited to glazing techniques, but it permeated his notions of design and colour as well. As early as 1875, he began to work in earnest with

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