Harrington Mann

Harrington Mann (7 October 1864 – 28 February 1937) was a Scottish portrait artist and decorative painter. He was a member of the Glasgow Boys movement in the 1880s.

Art career

Mann was born in Glasgow and began his studies at the Glasgow School of Art. at the Academie Julian for a short time.

Mann's early paintings from the 1880s are mainly of fishing communities in Yorkshire. He began to develop a name for himself in portrait painting in the 1890s. John's father was also a painter, John Mann (1797-1827).

Mann married the interior decorator Florence Sabine-Pasley (known as Dolly Mann).

Mann had three daughters, who appeared in several of his paintings, including Cathleen Sabine, an artist, who married Francis Douglas, 11th Marquess of Queensberry and then J.R. Follett.

Works

Mann painted a large number of society portraits, including the following.

Portraits The Fairy Tale, 1902 The Red Hat, 1920

Decorative paintings The Study for Mardi Gras, 1910

Landscapes Boy and Black Pigs, 1886 Tangiers, 1889 Café en Provence, 1930

Interiors

In 1888, Mann painted the interior of the hall of the Ewing Gilmour Institute for Girls, Smollet Street (and Gilmour Street), Alexandria, near Glasgow, designed by John Archibald Campbell. (The building has been known as a Masonic Hall since 1915.)

Exhibitions

Mann's works are today exhibited in the Tate Gallery and in the Glasgow Museums.

Royal Academy from 1885 onwards

Death Mann died in New York City on 28 February 1937.