HARRINGTON MANN (SCOTTISH 1864 - 1937)
ITALIANATE LANDSCAPE

oil on board, signed
framed and under glass

image size 18cm x 24cm, overall size 41cm x 48cm

Note: Harrington Mann was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 7 October 1864. He studied at Glasgow School of Art; under Alphonse Legros. at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London; and under Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre at the Académie Julian in Paris. He subsequently worked as a painter, decorative artist and stained glass designer. He designed stained glass for the Glasgow firm J. & W. Guthrie, including the Crucifixion window for St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Ardrossan, Ayrshire. Mann was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy in London from 1885 to 1937 and the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh from 1879 to 1936. He also exhibited at the Agnew & Sons Gallery, Dudley Gallery, Goupil Gallery, the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, the Leicester Galleries, the New English Art Club, the New Gallery, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, the Royal Society of Oil Painters, and the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in London; the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists; the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, Manchester City Art Gallery; and at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. A sketch for stained glass by Mann was shown at the 4th Exhibition of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society at the New Gallery in London in 1893. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers (RE) in 1885; the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (RP); and the National Portrait Society in 1911. His address was given as 18 Fitzroy Street, London in 1885; Queenslea, Langside, Glasgow in 1886; 248 West George Street, Glasgow in 1887; Via San Guiseppe, Rome in 1888; Queenslea, Langside, Glasgow in 1889 and 1894; 154 Coningham Road, London in 1896; 248 West George Street, Glasgow in 1898; 78 Lexham Gardens, London in 1900; 2 Cheniston Garden Studio, Kensington in 1901; 6 Melina Place, Grove End Road, London in 1902 and 1911; and 24 Eaton Square, London in 1912 and 1937. He also had a home in New York where he died on 28 February 1937.