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CHESTER HARDING (1792-1866)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 943 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHESTER HARDING (1792-1866)  ,
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American portrait painter, was born at Conway, Massachusetts, on the 1st of September 1792 . Brought up in the
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wilderness of New York state, Harding, as a lad of splendid physique,
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standing over 6 ft . 3 in., marched as a drummer with the militia to the St Lawrence in 1813 . He became subsequently chairmaker, peddler,
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inn-keeper, and house-painter,
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painting signs in Pittsburg, Pa., and eventually going on the road, self-taught, as an itinerant portrait painter . He made enough
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money to take him to the
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schools at the
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Philadelphia Academy of Design, and he soon became proficient enough to gain a competency, so that later he went to England and set up a studio in
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London . There he met with
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great success, painting royalty and the
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nobility, and, despite the lackings of an early
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education and social experience, he became a favourite in all circles . Returning to the
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United States, he settled in Boston and painted portraits of many of the prominent men and
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women of his time . He died on the 1st of
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April 1866 .

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