About Harry John Johnson
Lived 1826 – 1884 (aged 57–58). Harry John Johnson was a British painter.
Henry John Johnson, usually known as Harry (10 April 1826 — 31 December 1884) was an English landscape and water colour painter.
Life 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. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1845, and at other times in the next 35 years.
At the end of his life he was living at Loudon Street in London when he left a widow and a daughter.
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Who was Harry John Johnson?
British painter (1826-1884)
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Harry John Johnson was born on 1 April 1826 in Birmingham.
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Harry John Johnson died in 1884 in London.
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Harry John Johnson was a painter.
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