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John Harris (painter)

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John Harris
NationalityBritish
OccupationPainter

John Harris (died 1834) was a British watercolor painter.[1]

Biography

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Harris was one of the earliest artists who produced tinted drawings. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1802 to 1815, and made some designs for illustrations. He is probably identical with John Harris, a freemason, who executed some masonic plates in lithography in 1825, and in 1833 published a lithograph from a drawing taken on the spot, 7 July 1833, of the ‘Raising of the Block of Granite which forms the Pediment of the Porch for New Bridewell in Tothill Fields.’ Harris died in 1834. His father was Moses Harris.[2]

References

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Specific
  1. ^ British Museum. Dept. of Prints and Drawings, Binyon, Laurence. Catalogue of Drawings by British Artists and Artists of Foreign Origin Working in Great Britain ...: D-H. p. 269.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Mays, Robert. "Harris, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12413. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
General

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainCust, Lionel Henry (1891). "Harris, John (d.1834)". In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 25. London: Smith, Elder & Co.