Harold Harvey

Harold Harvey (1874–1941) was a Newlyn School painter who painted scenes of working-class Cornish fishermen, farmers and miners and Cornish landscapes. He was born in Penzance and trained at the Penzance School of Arts under Norman Garstin and the Académie Julian in Paris (1894–1896).

Private life Harold Charles Francis Harvey was born to Mary Bellringer Harvey and Francis McFarland Harvey on 20 May 1874 in Penzance. His father was a bank clerk. During his youth, he was home schooled. From 1894 to 1896, he studied art at the Académie Julian in Paris under Norman Garstin. In 1896, he studied at both the Académie Delécluse and the Académie Colarossi.

Late in his life, he converted to Catholicism. He died in Newlyn on 19 May 1941 and was buried in Penzance at the St Clare Cemetery.

Selected works Name Year Image Comments A Summer Night 1941 or before 175px A view of Paul Newlyn Cornwall 1941 or before 175px Three Boys 1904 175px From the University of Exeter's Fine Art Collection Gertrude in an Interior 1929 175px St Just Tin Miners The work is in the permanent collection of the Royal Cornwall Museum. Study for The Top of the Bus 1941 or before 175px Supper Time 1909 175px The Blackberry Harvest 1941 or before 175px The Lady Wheal Reeth Tin Mine 1934 175px The Letter 1937 175px The Red Silk Shawl 1932 175px The Stream in Winter 1933 175px Two Young Girls with a Butterfly 1929 175px Unloading the Boats, Newlyn Harbour 1906 175px The Mangolds 1904 175px From the University of Exeter's Fine Art Collection

Exhibitions His work was exhibited starting in 1895 as follows: In Whitechapel, other locations in Britain, Pittsburgh and Venice 1895 - Newlyn Art Gallery 1899 - Newlyn Art Gallery 1909 - Newlyn Art Gallery - he had his first gallery sale 1913 - Mendoza Gallery, London 1914 - Newlyn Art Gallery 1918 - Leicester Galleries, London - with Gertrude 1920 - Leicester Galleries, London - with Gertrude 1921 - Newlyn Art Gallery 1921-1941 - Royal Academy 1924-1928 - Newlyn Art Gallery 1924 - Oldham Municipal Gallery Spring Exhibition 1927 - Leicester Galleries, London 1932 - Barbizon House, London 1937 - Bristol 1939 - Bristol

Posthumous exhibitions: 1979 - Artists of the Newlyn School, Part 1 1985 - Artists of the Newlyn School, Part 2 1987 - Looking West, Newlyn Art Gallery and Royal Cambrian Academy 1989 - A Century of Art in Cornwall 1889–1989, Truro, CCC Centennial 1992 - Artists from Cornwall, 1992 Royal West of England Academy, Bristol