Harper, John, 1809-1842 The Cascade at Terni, 29th August 1842, pencil and watercolour, with white bodycolour on pale grey paper, titled and dated in pencil lower right, 29.5 x 42 cm (11.6 x 16.5 ins) mount aperture, gilt frame, glazed, with Abbott & Holder label to verso The architect and artist John Harper studied under Benjamin and Philip Wyatt, and while working for them prepared designs for Apsley House, York House and The Duke of York's Column. He then worked as an architect in York, from where he was employed by the Duke of Devonshire at Bolton Abbey, the Proprietary School at Clifton, York, the Roman Catholic Church at Bury, Lancashire. A close friend of William Etty he contracted malaria while studying art in Italy, and died during a voyage to Naples on 18th October 1842, less than two months after completing the present work. (Qty: 1)
Harper, John, 1809-1842 The Cascade at Terni, 29th August 1842, pencil and watercolour, with white bodycolour on pale grey paper, titled and dated in pencil lower right, 29.5 x 42 cm (11.6 x 16.5 ins) mount aperture, gilt frame, glazed, with Abbott & Holder label to verso The architect and artist John Harper studied under Benjamin and Philip Wyatt, and while working for them prepared designs for Apsley House, York House and The Duke of York's Column. He then worked as an architect in York, from where he was employed by the Duke of Devonshire at Bolton Abbey, the Proprietary School at Clifton, York, the Roman Catholic Church at Bury, Lancashire. A close friend of William Etty he contracted malaria while studying art in Italy, and died during a voyage to Naples on 18th October 1842, less than two months after completing the present work. (Qty: 1)
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