Howard J. Morgan
# Howard J. Morgan

Howard James Morgan (21 April 1949 – 22 September 2020) 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 (Butchers' Hall, London)
* HM The Queen of The Netherlands
* HRH Prince Michael of Kent
* TRH The Prince & Princess of Hanover
* Tom Stoppard
* Philip Larkin
* Francis Crick (National Portrait Gallery, London)
* Paul Maurice Dirac (National Portrait Gallery, London)
* Dame Antoinette Sibley (National Portrait Gallery, London)
* Herbert Norman Howells (National Portrait Gallery, London)
