oil on canvas, signed and dated 1902
framed

Note: Harrington Mann was a Scottish portrait artist and decorative painter. He was a member of the Glasgow boys movement in the 1880s. Mann was born in Glasgow and began his studies at the Glasgow School of Art. He then studied at the Slade school of art in London under professor Alphonse LeGros. He then studied in Paris under the guidance of the figure painters Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre at the Académie Julian for a short time. Mann's early paintings from the 1880s are mainly of fishing communities in Yorkshire He began to develop a name for himself in portrait painting in the 1890s together with other Glasgow boys John Lavery and George Henry. He had a strong sense of colour and design for decorating interior walls and for stained glass. In the 1890s he designed for the Scottish firm of J&W Guthrie (which became Guthrie and Wells). In 1893 he designed the stained glass for the west window of St Bartholomew’s Church, Barbon in what is now Cumbria. In 1900, he moved south to London, also opening a studio in New York, where his paintings became popular.[1] In London, he found success in society portraits, especially of children and including members of the British royal family. Mann's use of colour was influenced by James McNeil Whistler. His bold brushwork shows the influence of John Singer Sargent. Mann was one of the founder members of the National Portrait Society in 1911, his paintings are widely held and his most recent portrait of a similar size, “Lady with a Riding Hat” was sold at Dreweatts, Newbury (Lot 35 15th August 2023) for £68K Hammer.