Later Life
In 1947 the Morris baronetcy came to his father from a distant cousin three months before his death and Cedric Morris succeeded his father in the same year to become the 9th Baronet Morris. He became a lecturer at the Royal College of Art in 1950.
From about 1975 Morris virtually gave up painting because of failing eyesight.
In 1984 the Tate Gallery held a retrospective exhibition of Morris's work.
Morris had a distinctive and often rather primitive post-Impressionist style, and painted portraits, landscapes and very decorative still lifes of flowers and birds. As a portrait painter he produced notable studies of subjects such as Rosamond Lehmann (1932) and Lucian Freud (1940), who painted him in the same year (National Museum of Wales).
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