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charles duffield harding
early life and training charles duffield harding, a british landscape painter, lithographer, and author of drawing manuals, was born in 1798 at deptford. his father, a drawing-master who had been a pupil of paul sandby, taught him perspective. harding also received lessons from samuel prout. artistic career and influences at the age of thirteen, harding exhibited two drawings of buildings in the style of prout at the royal academy. he was apprenticed to the engraver charles pye but left after a year to focus on painting watercolors. in 1818, he showed with the society of painters in watercolo…
The Subject Atlas
A chart of charles duffield harding's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Spokes — Subject
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Rings — Career Period
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Threads — Shared Context
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
