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SIR GEORGE HARVEY (1806-1876)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 42 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:GEORGE See also:HARVEY (1806-1876)  , Scottish painter, the son of a watchmaker, was See also:born at St Ninians, near See also:Stirling, in See also:February 18o6 . Soon after his See also:birth his parents removed to Stirling, where See also:George was apprenticed to a bookseller . His love for See also:art having, however, become very decided, in hiseighteenth See also:year he entered the Trustees' See also:Academy at See also:Edinburgh . Here he so distinguished himself that in 1826 he was invited by the Scottish artists, who had resolved to found a Scottish academy, to join it as an See also:associate . See also:Harvey's first picture, " A See also:Village School," was exhibited in 1826 at the Edinburgh Institution; and from the See also:time of the opening of the Academy in the following year he continued annually to exhibit . His best-known pictures are those depicting See also:historical episodes in religious See also:history from a puritan or evangelical point of view, such as " See also:Covenanters See also:Preaching,' " Covenanters' Communion," " See also:John See also:Bunyan and his See also:Blind Daughter," " See also:Sabbath Evening," and the " Quitting of the See also:Manse." He was, however, equally popular in See also:Scotland for subjects not directly religious; and " The Bowlers," " A Highland Funeral," " The Curlers," "A Schule Skailin'," and " See also:Children Blowing Bubbles in the See also:Church-yard of Greyfriars', Edinburgh," See also:manifest the same See also:close observation of See also:character, See also:artistic conception and conscientious elaboration of details . In "The See also:Night See also:Mail" and " See also:Dawn Revealing the New See also:World to See also:Columbus " the aspects of nature are, made use of in different ways, but with equal happiness, to lend impressiveness and solemnity to human concerns . He also painted landscapes and portraits . In 1829 he was elected a See also:fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy; in 1864 he succeeded See also:Sir J . W . See also:Gordon as See also:president; and he was knighted in 1867 . He died at Edinburgh on the 22nd of See also:January 1876 .

Sir George Harvey was the author of a See also:

paper on the " See also:Colour of the See also:Atmosphere," read before the Edinburgh Royal Society, and afterwards published with illustrations in See also:Good Words; and in 187o he published a small See also:volume entitled Notes of the See also:Early History of the Royal Scottish Academy . Selections from the See also:Works of Sir George Harvey, P.R.S.A., described by the Rev . A . L . See also:Simpson, F.S.A . See also:Scot., and photographed by See also:Thomas See also:Annan, appeared at Edinburgh in 1869 .

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