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water-colours in the tinted manner. He made some designs illustrating a Bible published by Reeves in 1802, and from that year to 1813 was an exhibitor at the Royal Academy of birds, insects, and rural and domestic subjects. He diea 1834.

HARRIS, J., engraver. Practised towards the end of the 17th century. Works by him bear date from 1686 to 1700. His best plates illustrate a volume of 'Vitruvius Britannicus,' published in 1739. He was engaged with John Kip in engraving some views of gentlemen's seats.

HARRIS, Moses, amateur. Born in 1731. He was a member of a society of entomologists called the 'Aurelians,' and was engaged for 20 years, as a labour of love, in drawing, engraving, and colouring insects, chiefly moths and butterflies, which he published under the title of ' The Au- relian; or, Natural History of English Insects,' 1766. The insects were all drawn by him from the life, the engraving was his first attempt with the graver, and the colouring is very brilliant. The work is exceedingly well done, and considering the date is remarkable for its art. He after- wards published ' An Essay intended as a Supplement to the Am-elian,' 1766 ; 'The English Lepidoptera,' 1775-78; *An Ex- position of English Insects,' 1776 ; and a • Natural System of Colours/ 1811. He exhibited a frame of English insects at the Academy in 1785.

HARRIS, Henry, medallist. He was employed in the Mint in the latter part of the reign of Charles II., and on the acces- sion of James II. was appointed one of the die engravers. He was distinguished by his ability as an artist, but Walpole, con- founding* him with Joseph Harris, an actor and dramatic writer at the Royal Theatre, says he was ignorant of art and incom- petent. He died 1690.

HARRIS, W., gem sculptor. He ex- hibited at the Royal Academy, 1788-92, engraved gems. ' The Parting of Achilles and Briseis/ 'The Judgment of Paris,' ( The Entrance of Alexander into Babylon.' He was appointed gem sculptor to the Pukes of York and Clarence.

HARRISON, Mrs. Mary, flower paint- er. Was one of the original members of the new Society of Painters in Water- Colours, now called the Institute. Her fruit and flower pieces, unfailingly exhibited year after year, bore unmistakable marks of taste, feeling, and close observation of nature. Her first works, executed at the beginning of the century, followed the trim fashion of the time. Born in Liverpool in 1788, the daughter of Mr. Rossiter, a hat manufacturer, she married in 1814 Mr. Harrison, a gentleman in easy circum- stances; he unfortunately, as his family increased, was induced to enter into a

partnership which proved disastrous. H e became a Droken-spirited invalid, and the duty of providing for twelve children de- volved upon Mrs. Harrison. This duty she bravely performed, and many of her loveliest works are pot boilers. Her hus- band died in 1861. She herself breathed her last on November 25, 1875, without a struggle, having previously ascertained that her pictures had been safely despatched to the winter exhibition of the Institute.

HARRISON, George II., water-colour painter. Son of the above. Was born at Liverpool in March 1816. He was early taught in art, and at the age of 14 came up to London, with some unsettled notions of being an engraver, and for a time sup- ported himself hy the sale of his drawings to the dealers. Afterwards he was en- gaged in making anatomical drawings and illustrations, and studied at the Hunterian Museum in Windmill Street. At this time he gained the notice of Constable, R.A., who advised him to sketch from nature. He was also a teacher, leading his pupils into the open fields. He was an exhibitor at the Royal Academy, chiefly in water- colours, from 1840 till his death. His works were chiefly landscape and domestic scenes. He had* tried most subjects and many mediums, and was settling down to landscape. His foliage was luxurious and true, his figures well introduced. He was elected an associate of the Water-Colour Society in 1845, and was improving as an artist when, after much suffering, he died of aneurism, October 20, 1846.

HARRISON, Thomas, architect. Was born at Richmond, Yorkshire, 1744. He early showed a taste for drawing, and about 1769 was assisted by Lord Dundas to visit Italy, and studied for several years at Rome. While there he made some designs for the embellishment of the Square of Santa Maria del Popolo, for which the Pope presented him with a gold and a silver medal. He was also elected a mem- ber of the Academy of St. Luke. He travelled home through Italy and France, arriving in 1776, and was at that time an occasional exhibitor at the Royal Academy. Soon after he engaged to build a bridge of five arches over the Lune, a Lancashire river, and constructed the first level bridge erected in England. Having settled at Lancaster, he was employed to execute several extensive alterations at the old castle in that town, and afterwards built, on the panopticon principle, the gaol at Chester, and the court-house. He designed the bridge over the Dee, with an arch of 200 feet span, a dimension then unequalled. He also designed the Athenaeum and the St. Nicholas's Tower in Liverpool, and the theatre ; and in 1809 the Exchange Build- ings in Manchester, the latter an early

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