Complex sentence: James Duffield Harding (1798-4 December 1863), English landscape painter, was the son of an artist, and took to the same vocation at an early age, although he had originally been destined for the law.
Split into simpler sentences: James Duffield Harding (1798-4 December 1863), English landscape painter. Harding was was the son of an artist, and took to the same vocation at an early age, although he had originally been destined for the law.