George Harvey. Sir George Frederick Harvey, Scottish painter.
He was the son of George Harvey, a watchmaker, and Elizabeth Harvey, and was born at 59 Main Street, St Ninians, a small village near Stirling. His brother was Bailie Harvey was long active in Glasgow municipal affairs.
Soon after his birth his parents removed to Stirling, where George was apprenticed to Mr McLaren, a bookseller on Bow Street. His love for art having, however, become very decided, in his eighteenth year he entered the Trustees' Academy on Picardy Place in Edinburgh.
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 associate. Harvey's first picture, A Village School, was exhibited in 1826 at the Edinburgh Institution; and from the time of the opening of the Academy in the following year he continued annually to exhibit.
His best-known pictures are those depicting historical episodes in religious history from a puritan or evangelical point of view, such as Covenanters' Preaching, Covenanters' Communion, John Bunyan and his Blind Daughter,Sabbath Evening, and the Quitting of the Manse. He was, however, equally popular in Scotland for subjects not directly religious; and The Bowlers, A Highland Funeral, The Curlers, A Schule Skailin', and Children Blowing Bubbles in the Church-yard of Greyfriars', Edinburgh, manifest the
He was the son of George Harvey, a watchmaker, and Elizabeth Harvey, and was born at 59 Main Street, St Ninians, a small village near Stirling. His brother was Bailie Harvey was long active in Glasgow municipal affairs.
Soon after his birth his parents removed to Stirling, where George was apprenticed to Mr McLaren, a bookseller on Bow Street. His love for art having, however, become very decided, in his eighteenth year he entered the Trustees' Academy on Picardy Place in Edinburgh.
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 associate. Harvey's first picture, A Village School, was exhibited in 1826 at the Edinburgh Institution; and from the time of the opening of the Academy in the following year he continued annually to exhibit.
His best-known pictures are those depicting historical episodes in religious history from a puritan or evangelical point of view, such as Covenanters' Preaching, Covenanters' Communion, John Bunyan and his Blind Daughter,Sabbath Evening, and the Quitting of the Manse. He was, however, equally popular in Scotland for subjects not directly religious; and The Bowlers, A Highland Funeral, The Curlers, A Schule Skailin', and Children Blowing Bubbles in the Church-yard of Greyfriars', Edinburgh, manifest the
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