Jane Morgan

Jane Morgan (1832 – 4 April 1899) was an Irish painter and sculptor. Jane Morgan was one of five children of Anthony Morgan of Prospect Hill (now called Ardnalee) Carrigrohane, County Cork, Ireland. She studied under Robert Richard Scanlan of the Cork School of Design and Joseph Robinson Kirk. She won a prize in 1860 for her life-sized sculpture Nourmahal and exhibited two marble pieces in Dublin in 1865. In 1865, she and her sister Middy Morgan moved to Rome, where Jane Morgan became associated with the circle of expatriate artists including Harriet Hosmer and Emma Stebbins. Jane Morgan studied art in Rome, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, and Munich. She lived in Munich for fifteen years. Her paintings include large-scale human tableaus skillfully capturing details like clothing, such as Monks and a Courtier (1883), in a private collection. Her Is That All? (1898) in the Ulster Museum depicts a woman and her child selling prized possessions to a pawnbroker.