There is little known about Philadelphia painter Harry Finney. Like John Singer Sargent, Daniel Ridgway Knight and James Mc Neil Whistler, Finney is considered an American-expatriate a portrait, landscape and genre painter. He exhibited at "The Lunch" no. 125 in 1888; "L'aprés-midi au Bois, Paris, no 64 in 1890 and "Mademoiselle BéBé, no. 98 in 1896/97 at the Pennsylvania Academy if Fine Art.

Finney studied at the Beaux-Arts Academe under Jules Lefebvre. He also exhibited "Reverie" at the Paris Salon of 1890, cat no. 916 (see American Art at the Paris Salons, by Lois Maire Fink, Publisher, Cambridge University Press, 1990, pg. 342

Listed:
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 1876-1913
American Art at the Paris Salons, by Lois Maire Fink, Publisher, Cambridge University Press, 1990, pg. 342

Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton