James Harris, father of landscape painter Edwin Landseer Harris, was the longest-serving teacher of landscape painting in Rochester, NY in the 19th Century and was the first teacher of noted landscape painter Norton Bush.
Harris, born in Whaplode, Lincolnshire, England, emigrated to the US in the early 1840s and was one of the many Rochester artists with studios in the original Reynolds Arcade. He died of a respiratory infection, and one of his pupils, in a written tribute, said:
"He was industrious and persevering to a marvelous degree; grave in manner but genial at heart; retiring in disposition; amiable in temper and sensitive in spririt; always searching after knowledge and inquiring for the truth; possessing a mind stored with information varied and extensive, combined with such happy conversational powers as made the hours which his scholars spent at their lessons glide unnoticed by on ‘feet shod with down’. Such was the instructor, who united to the reliance of a self-made man the simplicity of a little child."
Harris, born in Whaplode, Lincolnshire, England, emigrated to the US in the early 1840s and was one of the many Rochester artists with studios in the original Reynolds Arcade. He died of a respiratory infection, and one of his pupils, in a written tribute, said:
"He was industrious and persevering to a marvelous degree; grave in manner but genial at heart; retiring in disposition; amiable in temper and sensitive in spririt; always searching after knowledge and inquiring for the truth; possessing a mind stored with information varied and extensive, combined with such happy conversational powers as made the hours which his scholars spent at their lessons glide unnoticed by on ‘feet shod with down’. Such was the instructor, who united to the reliance of a self-made man the simplicity of a little child."
James Harris, father of landscape painter Edwin Landseer Harris, was the longest-serving teacher of landscape painting in Rochester, NY in the 19th Century and was the first teacher of noted landscape painter Norton Bush.
Harris, born in Whaplode, Lincolnshire, England, emigrated to the US in the early 1840s and was one of the many Rochester artists with studios in the original Reynolds Arcade. He died of a respiratory infection, and one of his pupils, in a written tribute, said:
"He was industrious and persevering to a marvelous degree; grave in manner but genial at heart; retiring in disposition; amiable in temper and sensitive in spririt; always searching after knowledge and inquiring for the truth; possessing a mind stored with information varied and extensive, combined with such happy conversational powers as made the hours which his scholars spent at their lessons glide unnoticed by on ‘feet shod with down’. Such was the instructor, who united to the reliance of a self-made man the simplicity of a little child."
Harris, born in Whaplode, Lincolnshire, England, emigrated to the US in the early 1840s and was one of the many Rochester artists with studios in the original Reynolds Arcade. He died of a respiratory infection, and one of his pupils, in a written tribute, said:
"He was industrious and persevering to a marvelous degree; grave in manner but genial at heart; retiring in disposition; amiable in temper and sensitive in spririt; always searching after knowledge and inquiring for the truth; possessing a mind stored with information varied and extensive, combined with such happy conversational powers as made the hours which his scholars spent at their lessons glide unnoticed by on ‘feet shod with down’. Such was the instructor, who united to the reliance of a self-made man the simplicity of a little child."
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