Harry John Johnson
Illustration — Hierapolis, oil painting by Harry John Johnson, c.1844 • Illustration — Lycian sarcophagus, c. • Illustration — Lycian sarcophagus, c. Henry John Johnson, usually known as Harry (10 April 1826 — 31 December 1884) was an English landscape and water colour painter.
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Harry John Johnson
Harry John Johnson (1826–1884) · Public domain
- Born
- 1826 · Birmingham.
- Died
- 1884 · London.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- painter
- Languages
- English
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Illustration — Hierapolis, oil painting by Harry John Johnson, c.1844 • Illustration — Lycian sarcophagus, c. • Illustration — Lycian sarcophagus, c. Henry John Johnson, usually known as Harry (10 April 1826 — 31 December 1884) was an English landscape and water colour painter.
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Harry John Johnson (1826–1884) was a British painter. Born in Birmingham, the painter died in London.
Languages used include English. Works by Harry John Johnson are held at National Portrait Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum and Yale Center for British Art.
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Johnson was born in Birmingham, where he studied under Samuel Lines. He was then in London as a studio pupil of William James Müller. With Müller he made an extended visit in 1843 to Lycia, where Charles Fellows was carrying out an excavation. The watercolours of Turkey that Müller painted during this period were an important influence on him. Johnson travelled in southern Europe, northern Africa and Asia Minor. He painted oil - and watercolour pictures (ruins of Sardis, the Acropolis in Athens, Temple of Athena in Aegina). In 1844 he was making one of a number of visits to Betws-y-coed in Wales - this time with David Cox of the Birmingham School who was known for painting landscapes. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1845, and at other times in the next 35 years. Johnson has watercolours in the Victoria & Albert Museum as well as paintings in collections in Bath, Sheffield and Birmingham. At the end of his life he was living at Loudon Street in London when he left a widow and a daughter.
Harry John Johnson - Aloes and Prickly Pears, Tarragona, Spain - B1975.4.1299 - Yale Center for British Art
Harry John Johnson · Yale Center for British Art
Harry John Johnson - Villa Massimi, Rome, Gateway Flanked by Palms in Large Earthware Jars - B1975.4.1648 - Yale Center for British Art
Harry John Johnson · Yale Center for British Art
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1826
Harry John Johnson was born on 1 April 1826.
1884
Harry John Johnson died on 1 January 1884.
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- 1.Greenacre, Francis. Johnson, Henry John.
- 2.Francis Greenacre, ‘Johnson, Henry John [Harry] (1826–1884)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 5 Oct 2013
- 3.Art UK bio
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Harry John Johnson is recorded as a citizen of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Recorded with the occupation painter.
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