Harvey

Harvey, SIR GEORGE, P.R.S.A., was born at St Ninians, near Stirling, in February 1806. He was apprenticed to a bookseller in Stirling, but in 1823 removed to Edinburgh, and entered the Trustees' Academy there. In 1826, when the Royal Scottish Academy was instituted, he was elected an Associate, though only in his twentieth year; he became a full Academician in 1829, president in 1864, and was knighted in 1867. He died 22d January 1876. Many of his works are well known through the medium of engravings. The principal are 'Covenanters' Preaching,' 'Battle of Drumclog,' 'A Highland Funeral,' 'Children blowing Bubbles in Old Greyfriars' Churchyard,' 'First Reading of the Bible in the Crypt of St Paul's,' 'Bunyan in Bedford Gaol' and 'Bunyan and his Daughter selling Laces,' 'Shakespeare before Sir T. Lucy,' 'The Curlers,' and 'Leaving the Manse.' In his later years Harvey devoted much time to landscape-painting.