Harvey Sir George

Harvey, Sir George (1806-76), Scotch painter, the son of a watchmaker, was born at St. Ninians. He was apprenticed to a bookseller, but at the age of twenty exhibited a picture at the Edinburgh Institution, and was made one of the original associates of the Royal Scottish Academy. In 1829 he became a full member, and in 1864, when he was knighted, became president. He excelled alike in figure-pictures and in landscapes. Of the first, the Covenanters' Preaching (1829-30) and Shakespeare before Sir Thomas Lucg (1836) are wellknown examples, and among his finest landscapes are Ferragon (1857) and Sheepshearing (1859).