Harold Harvey - Artist Info

About Harold Harvey

  • Biography

    Harold Harvey 1874—1941 was born in Penzance, Cornwall, England on 20 May 1874 , the son of Francis McFarland Harvey, a bank clerk and Mary (née Bellringer). He became a painter in both watercolour and oils, depicting Cornish life and landscapes, later interiors and religious subjects; he was also a muralist.

    His primary education was at home, and then he studied art first with Norman Garstin, in Paris at Academie Julian 1894-96, and Academie Colarossi and Atelier Delecluse in 1896.

    On returning to Penzance in the late 1890s, he worked again with Garstin before he married the artist Gertrude Bodinnar Harvey in 1911. He painted in both watercolour and oils depictions of Cornish life and landscapes, later c...

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