biografía de George HARVEY (c.1800-1878)

Lugar de nacimiento: Tottenham, England

Lugar de defunción: England

Profesión: Landscape, miniature, still-life, and genre painter

Estudios: England (c.1830-34)

Exposiciones: NAD, 1871-72

Asociaciones: ANA, 1828

Obra: NYHS; BMFA

Comentarios: From 1820-28, he traveled throughout Ohio, Michigan, and Canada before moving to Brooklyn, NY, in 1828. He became well-known in Brooklyn, but the next year moved to Boston, by which time he could claim about 400 portrait miniatures to his credit. After visiting and studying in England for several years, he returned to New York state, and in 1835 built a home along the Hudson (near Hastings-on-Hudson), close to Washington Irving's romantic home Sunnyside," which Harvey helped Irving design. Harvey began working on a series of "atmospheric views" of the Hudson River Valley in watercolor, hoping to have 40 of them engraved and published by subscription. Although he rigorously sought patronage and backing for his project, the expense was quite high, and only 250 copies of four views, under the title The Seasons, were ultimately published (1841, many watercolor studies are at NYHS). Several Virginia landscapes are known from this time, and it is believed that he took trips to Virginia, as well as Canada and Ohio. In addition to his landscapes, he specialized in floral still lifes with large beautiful blossoms, in vases, and often resting on a marble tabletop. He also painted genre scenes. After 1847 he made his home in England, lecturing in London, but he traveled back and forth between there and North Ameria, also visiting Florida and Bermuda. In 1850 he published Harvey's Illustrations of Our Country (1850).

Fuentes: G&W; Shelley, "George Harvey and His Atmospheric Landscapes of North America"; Shelley, "George Harvey, English Painter of Atmospheric Landscapes in America," with 8 repros.; Parker, "George Harvey"; Karolik Cat., 297-300, two repros.; Portfolio (Oct. 1943), 41-44, three repros.; Cowdrey, NAD; Cowdrey, AA & AAU; Swan, BA; Stokes, Historic Prints, pl. 84b; Harvey, Harvey's Scenes of the Primitive Forest of America (N.Y., 1841), four colored engravings. More recently, see Baigell, Dictionary; 300 Years of American Art, vol 1: 123; Wright, Artists in Virgina Before 1900."