Harold Harvey was a Newlyn School painter who painted scenes of working class Cornish fishermen, farmers and miners and Cornish landscapes.
Background
He was born in Penzance and trained at the Penzance School of Arts under Norman Garstin and the Académie Julian in Paris (1894–1896). 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.
Education
From 1894 to 1896, he studied art at the Academie Julian in Paris under Norman Garstin. In 1896 he studied at both the Académie Delecluse and the Academie Colarossi.
Career
During his youth he was home schooled. Prior to 1911 Harvey lived in Penzance. In 1911 Harvey married fellow artist Gertrude Bodinnar.
They first met when Gertrude posed for Harvey.
She discovered that she had artistic talent and became an artist in her own right in a wide range of visual and textile arts The married couple lived in Newlyan at Maen Cottage.
He died in Newlyn on 19 May 1941 and was buried in Penzance at the Heamoor Cemetery. Gertrude lived in their cottage until 1960 when she moved into a Street Just nursing home.
She died six years later.
After completing his schooling in Paris, Harvey returned to Penzance and began working with Norman Garstin. He used oil and watercolour paints. 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, Participant 1
1985 - Artists of the Newlyn School, Participant 2
1987 - Looking West, Newlyn Art Gallery and Royal Cambrian Academy
1989 - A Century of Art in Cornwall 1889-1989, Truro, Commodity Credit Corporation Centennial
1992 - Artists from Cornwall, 1992 Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.
Membership
From 1909 to 1913 he was an Associate of the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, Conwy and in 1910 he was a member of the South Wales Art Society. From about 1910 and into the early 1930s he was a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists, particularly with artists from the Lamorna valley.