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…