Henry Price (5 May 1819 – 12 December 1863) was a British musician and painter who specialized in landscape watercolors. After studying painting and violin in London, he went to New York, where he married Elisa Castello, a Colombian. In 1841, they moved to Bogotá, Colombia. In 1847, he co-founded the Philharmonic Society of Bogotá (la Sociedad Filarmónica de Bogotá) and its music school (Escuela de Música). He participated in the third phase of the Comisión Corográfica (1850–1859), led by Agustín Codazzi, who replaced the Venezuelan painter Carmelo Fernández. The Comisión Corográfica had been founded according to an 1839 law with the mission of creating an official map of Colombia and studying the country's geography. On his trip from Santa Marta to Bogotá together with the Comisión Corográfica, between January and August 1858, he painted the people who lived on the banks of the

Magdalena River The Magdalena River ( es, Río Magdalena, ; less commonly ) is the main river of Colombia, flowing northward about through the western half of the country. It takes its name from the biblical figure Mary Magdalene. It is navigable through much of ...

. He was a renowned landscape artist. His watercolors reflected the scenes and social customs he saw. During his travels, he became

hemiplegic Hemiparesis, or unilateral paresis, is weakness of one entire side of the body ('' hemi-'' means "half"). Hemiplegia is, in its most severe form, complete paralysis of half of the body. Hemiparesis and hemiplegia can be caused by different medic ...

. According to his family, he was poisoned by his watercolor pigments. He was replaced by a Colombian artist,

Manuel María Paz Manuel María Paz Delgado (July 6, 1820, Almaguer, Cauca, Colombia - September 16, 1902 Bogotá) was a Colombian cartographer, military officer, artist and watercolorist. Biography Manuel María Paz Delgado was born June 6, 1820 in the town o ...

. He returned to New York where he died in Brooklyn on 12 December 1863 at age 44.

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has a multimedia category for Henry Price. * La Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia ha
art from the Comisión Corográfica.
19th-century British painters British male painters Landscape artists 1819 births 1863 deaths 19th-century British male artists {{UK-painter-19thC-stub