biografía de Horace HARDING (1794-1857)

Lugar de nacimiento: Conway, MA

Lugar de defunción: Woodville, MS

Profesión: Portrait painter

Exposiciones: Acad. FA, Cincinnati, 1842

Obra: City Art Mus., St. Louis, MO; Univ. Kentucky AM

Comentarios: A younger brother of Chester Harding (see entry), with whom he operated a furniture business in up-state New York about 1815, Horace Harding soon after moved to Paris (KY) and took up portrait painting. There he was joined about 1818 by Chester and his family. Over the next ten years Horace Harding traveled as an itinerant painter, working in Cincinnati in 1819, Vincennes (IN) in 1820, Kentucky in 1821, Rochester (NY) in 1823, Columbus and Oxford (OH) in 1829, Lebanon (OH) in 1832. Harding lived in Cincinnati from I834-40 but in the late 1830s he again traveled extensively, painting in Versailles (IN), Kentucky, St. Louis (MO). He also periodically worked in New Orleans, advertising his services in 1835-37. He was living in NYC in 1842 but also working in Cincinnati. Later travels took him to Little Rock (AR), New Orleans (late 1856, early 1857) and Woodsville (MS). In addition to Chester Harding, his brothers included Dexter and Spencer Harding, also artists (see entries).

Fuentes: G&W; Harding, My Egotistography; Peat, Pioneer Painters of Indiana, 17-21. More recently, see Hageman, 63-64; Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists, which lists these references: True American, May 3, 1836; Union, Oct. 5, 1835; Pic, May 26, 1837; Bee, Nov. 10, 1856, Jan. 1-29, 1857 (advs.); Jones and Weber, The Kentucky Painter from the Frontier Era to the Great War, 53 (w/repro.)