George Harley (painter)

George Harley, born in 1791, appears as an exhibitor at the Royal Academy in 1817, when he sent two drawings of views in London. He had a large practice as a drawing-master, and drew in lithography some landscape drawings, as Lessons in Landscape, for Messrs. Rowney & Forster's series of lithographic drawing-books, published in 1820–2. In 1848 he published a small Guide to Pencil and Chalk Drawing from Landscape, dedicated to his past and present pupils, which reached a second edition.

Harley died in 1871, aged eighty, and was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery.

There are two water-colour drawings by Harley in the print room at the British Museum, one being a view of Maxstoke Priory, Warwickshire. A view of Fulham Church and Putney Bridge entered the collection of the South Kensington Museum.

File:George Harley - Hungerford Stairs, Westminster - B1977.14.18548 - Yale Center for British Art.jpg|Hungerford Stairs, Westminster (1822)

File:Grave of George Harley in Highgate Cemetery.jpg|Grave of George Harley in Highgate Cemetery

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• {{cite DNB|wstitle=Harley, George (1791-1871)|last=Cust|first=Lionel Henry|volume=24|pages=396}} {{PD-notice}}
• Cust, L. H.; Baker, Anne Pimlott (2004). [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/12338 "Harley, George (1791–1871)"]. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.
• Oliver, Valerie Cassel, ed. (2011). [https://doi.org/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00083923 "Harley, George"]. In Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford University Press.

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