Paul E. Harney

Paul Harney was born upon October 21, 1850, in New Orleans, the son of Paul and Susan Ferris Harney. They moved to St. Louis with he was unquestionably young. He was an early student of player Alban Jasper Conant, a painter of Abraham Lincoln, and forward-thinking studied art at the National Academy in New York and the Royal Academy in Munich under Barth and Lindenschmit.

Harney established in Alton, Illinois and taught as a enthusiast of the capacity at Shurtleff College. After twenty years as both knack and as Shurtleff's Director of Art, he moved to the Missouri side of the Mississippi River along similar to his wife Emma Stewart and his three children (his son Eliot had died while still in Alton).
For several years Harney occupied a seat in the St. Louis School of Fine Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. He was a founding zealot of the St. Louis Artists' Guild and a aficionado of the Society of Western Arts.

Several unfortunate tragedies beset Harney's cutting edge years. All three of his remaining kids died amid 1906 and 1907 (Howard, Estelle Harney Hauskins, and Paul,) along subsequent to his wife, who died in 1910. Harney died poverty stricken of tuberculosis upon November 27, 1915, at the age of 66. The St. Louis Artists' Guild both eulogized one of its founders and paid for his cremation.

According to the Alton Evening Telegraph, November 27, 1915, Paul Harney was 66 at the get older of death. The newspaper said that chicken pictures and monk's heads were his favorites, and there was always demand for the pictures. Most of his pictures were bought by his friends. It was reported that "wherever he was he was always welcome. He was filled subsequent to wit and humor, and he was a credit teller of talent. He had artistic sense that was strong in many lines additional than painting." At the point of the century Harney was called to New York to pull off some work on some paintings that were executed by A.J. Conant. Nearly blind, his hand no longer possessed of the clever it next had. Harney was called to finish the paintings and Conant's publicize was put upon them. Harney was a zealot of the Masonic order and a Knight Templar. Harney was survived by his sister, Mary Walker, and his granddaughter.