title: Howard J. Morgan
text: # 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)
  