biografía de James Kimball HARLEY (1828-1889)

Lugar de nacimiento: Canada

Lugar de defunción: Baltimore, MD

Direcciones: Baltimore, MD; Richmond, VA; Wash., DC

Profesión: Portrait painter

Estudios: Antwerp (Belgium), 1846-49

Exposiciones: Washington AA, 1859

Obra: Maryland Hist. Soc.

Comentarios: Settled in Baltimore, MD at an unknown date. After three years' study in Belgium, he returned to Baltimore in 1849 where he gained considerable popularity as a fashionable portrait painter after the Civil War. He committed suicide.

Fuentes: G&W; Pleasants, 250 Years of Painting in Maryland, 62; Boston Transcript, Feb. 5, 1889, obit.; Richmond Portraits, 132, repro.; Lafferty; Washington Art Assoc. Cat., 1859; Rutledge, MHS; McMahan, Artists of Washington, D.C.; Wright, Artists in Virgina Before 1900. McMahan and Wright both cite a birth date of 1824.