 Sir George Harvey is primarily known as George Frederick Harvey
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Sir George Frederick Harvey was a Scottish painter, the son of a watchmaker and was born at St Ninians, near Stirling. Soon after his birth his parents removed to Stirling, where George was apprenticed to a bookseller. His love for art having, however, become very decided, in his eighteenth year, he entered the Trustees' Academy at Edinburgh. Here he so distinguished himself that in 1826 he was invited by the Scottish artists, who had resolved to found a Scottish academy, to join it as an associ (showing 500 of 2535 characters). |
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