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See also: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
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Soon after his See also:birth his parents removed to Stirling, where See also:George was apprenticed to a bookseller
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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
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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
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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
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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:
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
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Selections from the See also:Works of Sir George Harvey, P.R.S.A., described by the Rev
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