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HARDING, JAMES DUFFIELD (1798-1863)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 943 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HARDING, See also:JAMES DUFFIELD (1798-1863) , See also:English landscape painter, was the son of an artist, and took to the same vocation at an See also:early See also:age, although he had originally been destined for the See also:law. He was in the See also:main a See also:water-See also:colour painter and a lithographer, but he produced various oil-paintings both at the beginning and towards the end of his career. He frequently contributed to the exhibitions of the Water-Colour Society, of which he became an See also:associate in 1821, and a full member in 1822. He was also very largely engaged in teaching, and published several books developing his views of See also:art—amongst others, The Tourist in See also:Italy (1831); The Tourist in See also:France (1834); The See also:Park and the See also:Forest (1841); The Principles and the Practice of Art (1845); Elementary Art (1846); See also:Scotland Delineated in a See also:Series of Views (1847); Lessons on Art (1849). He died at See also:Barnes on the 4th of See also:December 1863. Harding was noted for facility, sureness of See also:hand, nicety of See also:touch, and the various qualities which go to make up an elegant, highly trained, and accomplished sketcher from nature, and composer of picturesque landscape material; he was particularly skilful in the treatment of foliage.

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