Born in Somerset, Iowa, George Harvey became a portrait and landscape painter. He studied in Boston with his uncle George Harvey (1800-1878) and with Thomas Hicks in New York City. However, his art studies were interrupted by the Civil War.
After the War, he returned to live with his family in Burlington, Iowa where he remained the rest of his life. He worked as a printer and painted scenes along the Mississippi River. His most noted work was an enormous view of Burlington, commissioned b (showing 500 of 892 characters). |
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