1830
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Sketches at Home and Abroad: Falls of Terni is a 1830 by James Duffield Harding, a Romanticism work, depicting Waterfall, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a watercolor painting of a landscape with a waterfall. The artist, James Duffield Harding, was a teacher who emphasized the importance of capturing nature's feelings in art. He wanted his students to create paintings that felt real, but not just by copying what they saw. Check out the work of James Duffield Harding to learn more about his approach to art.
A watercolor painter and printmaker, Harding was one of the best-known artists of his day in England. A popular instructor, he taught poetry of landscape painting, admonishing his students to "produce as near a likeness to Nature, in every respect, as the instrument, or material employed, will admit of; not so much by bonâ fide imitation, as by reviving in the mind those ideas which are awakened by a contemplation of Nature . . . The renewal of those feelings constitutes the true purpose of Art." Harding began to draw on colored paper in 1830 and copied this effect in lithography by utilizing…
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James Duffield Harding (1798 – 4 December 1863) was a British landscape painter, lithographer and author of drawing manuals. His use of tinted papers and opaque paints in watercolour proved influential.
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