James duffield harding biography of martin

Landscape painter and lithographer Harding was initially taught by his artist father, he later studied watercolour technique under Samuel Prout..

Harding was born at Deptford in , the son of a drawing-master who had been a pupil of Paul Sandby.

Harding was initially taught by his artist father, he later studied watercolour technique under Samuel Prout.

Landscape painter and lithographer Harding was initially taught by his artist father, he later studied watercolour technique under Samuel Prout.

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Dictionary of National Biography, /Harding, James Duffield

&#;HARDING, JAMES DUFFIELD (–), landscape-painter and lithographer, born at Deptford in , was son of a drawing-master of ability, who had been a pupil of Paul Sandby.

He was taught perspective by his father, received some instruction from Prout, and at the age of thirteen exhibited two drawings at the Royal Academy; these were views of buildings in the manner of Prout. His first attempts at studying from nature were so unpromising that for a time he abandoned the idea of becoming a painter, and his father articled him to Charles Pye, an engraver.

Engraving proved distasteful to him, and having by perseverance overcome his original difficulties, he left Pye at the end of a year, and settled down to the practice of water-colour painting. At the age of eighteen he was awarded a silver medal by the Society of Arts.

In he exhibited for the first time with the Society of Painters in Watercolours, and during the whole of his l