Artist
Harriet Kearsley
Harriet Kearsley is a British Romanticism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
English watercolourist of the early 1800s, Harriet Kearsley painted religious scenes with delicate brushes and soft washes. Her 1825 sheet “The angels watching the dead Christ” shows a low-lit chamber where slender figures hover above a shrouded body, the white of the corpse only broken by a thread of crimson at the chest. A faint inscription in the margin reads “No. 13,” as if the sheet were one numbered drawing in a larger set. See how the angels’ wings catch the single light source—just left of center—before moving on to compare other English watercolours.
Works by Harriet Kearsley
Collections represented
Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.