Edwin Harris
Edwin Harris (* 1855 in Birmingham , West Midlands ; † 1906 ) was an English landscape, genre and portrait painter of late Impressionism and a representative of the Newlyn School , an artist colony of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
life and work
Edwin Harris first attended the Birmingham School of Art from 1870 . In 1877 he was allowed to exhibit for the first time at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists . Later he went to Antwerp to adapt to the Academy of Charles Verlat to take lessons, also at the same time Frank Bramley visited. In 1880 Harris returned to Birmingham and from 1881 made trips to Brittany and Newlyn in Cornwall , where he finally settled in 1883. In the years that followed, numerous other artists settled in the area, including Frank Bramley, Thomas Cooper Gotch , Stanhope Forbes , Percy Robert Craft , Henry Scott Tuke and Norman Garstin . Walter Langley had already settled here in 1882. An artists' colony was formed that became known as the Newlyn School . Their representatives mostly did open-air painting and recorded everyday scenes from village life. Harris left Newlyn in 1895 and settled in alternate locations in southern England until his untimely death in 1906.
From 1882 to 1904 Harris exhibited a total of 13 paintings at the Royal Academy of Arts and was elected a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. His most famous paintings are large genre paintings , some of which are about hardship and loss, which was also a central theme in the works of his friend Walter Langley. Although Harris was very successful with this work, he only showed his extraordinary skills in portraiture . Some of his works are now in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool , the Manchester Art Gallery , the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters .
literature
- Roger Langley: Edwin Harris 1855-1906 - An Introduction to His Life and Art , Truran 2008, ISBN 1850222215
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| SURNAME | Harris, Edwin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English late impressionist painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birmingham , West Midlands (region) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1906 |