Henry Albert Hartland

Henry Albert Hartland (2 August 1840 – 28 November 1893) was an Irish artist known for his watercolours and landscape paintings.

Early life and family Hartland was born on 2 August 1840 in Bellevue, Mallow, County Cork. His father was William Baylor Hartland. He attended the Christian Brothers' School in Cork, then enrolling in the Cork School of Art. He was the uncle of illustrator Gertrude Hartland.

Career On the moors, Achill Island, Co. Mayo, Ireland, Henry Albert Hartland; 1876. Pencil and watercolour, 67 x 100 cm.

After leaving art college he worked as an illustrator for a Cork bookseller, sketching mostly nature and landscapes, at a weekly salary of 30 shillings. He later built theatrical scenery for the Cork Theatre and the Theatre Royal, Dublin.

Hartland sold five landscapes to the Royal Hibernian Academy while on a visit to Cork in 1865, after which he occasionally exhibited with the academy. In 1868 he exhibited two landscapes with the Royal Academy, London from 72 South Mall, Cork. He was a member of the Society of Painters in Watercolour and the Liverpool Academy.

Hartland died on 28 November 1893 at Waterloo, Liverpool, following a fall off a cliff. Hartland had spent some time sketching the area around Cork harbour with his art student, John Fergus O'Hea.

Selected works

The Dark Valley, Killarney The Gap of Dunlo Rain, near Inchageela, Co. Cork An Irish Bog, Co. Mayo held in Reading Museum Moorland, Barmouth held in Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool On the side of the Bog of Allen held in Walker Art Gallery On the Wharfe held in Walker Art Gallery