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George Harvey, a landscape and minature painter, was a native of England. He came to the United States at the age of twenty and spent several years in the west before establishing himself as an artist. He was elected an Associate of the National Academy in 1828 and the next year he moved to Boston where he painted many minatures. Soon after this he visited England to study, returning to American again about 1833.
Harvey built a home near Hastings-on-Hudson, close to Irving's Sunnyside, which he helped design. At Hastings he commenced a notable series of "atmospheric" views of American scenery in watercolor, intended for publication by subscription. He was unable to find financial backing for this venture in either England or America and only four of these views were ever published. After 1850 his career became obscure. He apparently made his home in Europe, though he continued to make painting trips to North America, including Florida and Bermuda.
Accessioned in 1979, acquired earlier.
The real object is now at Union Church, a photograph repro now hangs in the Parlor at Sunnyside due to environmental conditions.
For Visions exhibition, packed in Crate #10.
Harvey did paint two other images of SS in 1836-1837. The 1836 version was owned by Irving. Locations of both are unknown in 2016. See object file for image of the 1826 painting, when it was exhibited at Hirschl & Adler in the 1980s (info sheet states it was in the posession of the family of Charlotte Van Wart Irving "until 1987"). The other image is mentioned in the same H&A info sheet as Country Residence of Washington Irving, which was displayed at the National Academy of Design in 1837 when it was lent by Moses Grinnell.Note Type
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Notes: After 1835, as Irving rebuilt the small Dutch cottage in which some of the walls dated from 1656, he reported progress in the remodeling called Sunnyside "...a tenement in which a man of very moderate means may live, and which yet may form an elegant little snuggery for a rich man. There is a lovely prospect from its windows, and a sweet green bank in front, shaded by locust trees, up which the summer breeze creeps delightfully. It is one of the most delicious banks in the world for reading and dozing and dreaming..."Note Type
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Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Union Church, Storage, Unit 1 Slot 2
