George Perfect Harding was an English portrait-painter and copyist.
Background
He was a son of Silvester Harding of Pall Mall. Adopting his father"s profession, he practised miniature-painting, and exhibited at the Royal Academy at intervals between 1802 and 1840. But, like his father, he mainly devoted himself to making water-colour copies of historical portraits.
Education
He produced highly finished copy portraits.
Career
Harding visited family seats of the nobility, royal palaces, and college halls. He was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1839, but withdrew in 1847. Towards the end of his life he had money troubles, and sold his collections of drawings.
Harding died at Hercules Buildings, Lambeth, where he had resided for more than thirty years, on 23 December 1853.
He left a large family by a second wife. His portrait was engraved by J. Brown, from a miniature by himself, in 1826.