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On the Rhine

Large Original Watercolour Painting

by James Duffield Harding RWS (1798 - 1863) 

A very fine watercolour painting by James Duffeld Harding depicting a continental riverside town almost certainly on the Rhine.  The painting is a superb example of Harding's work, it has a detailed composition with numerous figures both on the street and going about their business on boats in the foreground.  The painting is in very fine condition, the colours largely unfaded.  A first class work by an artist of the highest calibre this painting would grace any home or collection.  The painting is signed lower right.

James Duffield Harding was an English landscape painter, was the son of an artist, and took to the same vocation at an early age, although he had originally been destined for the law.  He was in the main a water-colour painter and a lithographer, but he produced various oil-paintings both at the beginning and towards the end of his career. He frequently contributed to the exhibitions of the Water-Colour Society, of which he became an associate in 1821, and a full member in 1822. He was also very largely engaged in teaching, and published several books developing his views of art--amongst others:

• The Tourist in Italy (1831)
• The Tourist in France (1834)
• The Park and the Forest (1841)
• The Principles and the Practice of Art (1845)
• Elementary Art (1846)
• Scotland Delineated in a Series of Views (1847)
• Lessons on Art (1849).

He died at Barnes on the 4th of December 1863. Harding was noted for facility, sureness of hand, nicety of touch, and the various qualities which go to make up an elegant, highly trained, and accomplished sketcher from nature, and composer of picturesque landscape material; he was particularly skillful in the treatment of foliage.

Original watercolours by Harding are worth thousands of pounds.  To view auction results please click the following link;

• http://www.findartinfo.com/search/listprices~keyword~18021~name~James_Duffield_Harding.asp

To view paintings by Harding in Museums and Public At Galleries please click the following link;

• http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/harding_james_duffield.html

This superb work measures :

Painting:              51cm (20") x 27cm (10.5")

Frame:                76cm (30") x 53cm (21")

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