Cedric Morris

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Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris (1889 - 1982) was a Welsh artist, best known for his flower paintings and landscapes.

Morris was born in Sketty, Swansea. He trained briefly at the Academie Delacluse in Paris before military service in World War I. He later returned to Paris to continue his studies. During the 1920s, he travelled extensively. He was co-founder of the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing at Dedham in Norfolk. In 1947 he succeeded his father as the 9th Baronet Morris. In 1950 he became a lecturer at the Royal College of Art.

He was also a portrait painter, and produced notable studies of subjects such as Rosamund Lehmann (1932) and Lucian Freud (1940).