George Harley (painter)
George Harley (1791–1871) was an English water-colour painter and drawing-master.[1]
Life
[edit]George Harley, born in 1791, appears as an exhibitor at the Royal Academy in 1817, when he sent two drawings of views in London. He had a large practice as a drawing-master, and drew in lithography some landscape drawings, as Lessons in Landscape, for Messrs. Rowney & Forster's series of lithographic drawing-books, published in 1820–2. In 1848 he published a small Guide to Pencil and Chalk Drawing from Landscape, dedicated to his past and present pupils, which reached a second edition.[1]
Harley died in 1871, aged eighty, and was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery.[1]
Works
[edit]There are two water-colour drawings by Harley in the print room at the British Museum, one being a view of Maxstoke Priory, Warwickshire. A view of Fulham Church and Putney Bridge entered the collection of the South Kensington Museum.[1]
Gallery
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Hungerford Stairs, Westminster (1822)
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Grave of George Harley in Highgate Cemetery
References
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[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Cust, Lionel Henry (1890). Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 24. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 396. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. . In
- Cust, L. H.; Baker, Anne Pimlott (2004). "Harley, George (1791–1871)". In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.
- Oliver, Valerie Cassel, ed. (2011). "Harley, George". In Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford University Press.