page_title: Andrew Morton (painter)
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Andrew Morton (painter) / Life
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Rear-Admiral Sir James Alexander Gordon, (1782-1869) painted by Andrew Morton in 1839
context_page_description: Andrew Morton was an English portrait-painter.
context_section_description: Born at Newcastle upon Tyne on 25 July 1802, he was son of Joseph Morton, a master mariner there, and was an elder brother of Thomas Morton the surgeon. He came to London and studied at the Royal Academy, gaining a silver medal in 1821. He exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy in 1821.
  Morton had a large practice and numerous distinguished sitters for portraits. He died on 1 August 1845.
caption: Portrait of James Gordon by Andrew Morton
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