Henry Albert Hartland
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File:Hartland-onthemoors.jpg
On the moors, Achill Island, Co. Mayo, Ireland, Henry Albert Hartland; 1876. Pencil and watercoulor, 26.5 x 39.4 in. / 67.3 x 100.2 cm.
Henry Albert Hartland (2 August 1840 – 28 November 1893 aged 53) was an Irish artist known for his watercolours and landscape paintings.[1]
Early period
His family were nurserymen, and at the time of his birth were based in Mallow. His brother William Baylor Hartland was a well known plantsman. His family later moved to Cork where he studied at the Cork School of Art.[2] Some of his watercolours were signed Albert Hartland.[3]
Career
After leaving Art College he worked as an illustrator for a Cork bookseller and later built theatrical scenery in Cork and Dublin. He was the uncle of illustrator Gertrude Hartland.
References
- ^ Whytes (2002). "Biographies of Irish Art and Irish Artists A-E". Archived from the original on 21 December 2011.
- ^ Crowley, Seamus (1986). "The Hartland Nursery Family of Mallow and Cork" (PDF). Journal of the Mallow Archaeological & Historical Society. Mallow Archaeological & Historical Society (3): 129–140 – via Cork City Libraries.
- ^ "Lot 36 - 'Mountain Lake (1873)' by Henry Albert Hartland".
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