George Harley (1791–1871) was an English water-colour painter and drawing-master.Cust 1890, p. 396.
Life 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.
Works 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.
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