12 Facts About Harold Gilman

Harold John Wilde Gilman was a British painter of interiors, portraits and landscapes, and a founder-member of the Camden Town Group.

Harold John Wilde Gilman was the second son and one of the seven children of Emily Purcell Gulliver and John Gilman, curate of Rode, Somerset.

Harold Gilman was educated in Kent, Abingdon School in Berkshire, from 1885 to 1890, in Rochester and at Tonbridge School, and for one year at Brasenose College in Oxford University.

Grace Harold Gilman left him in 1909, taking her three children to Chicago.

Harold Gilman was married, for the second time, to Sylvia Hardy, an artist he had met at Westminster and who had studied with him since 1914.

Harold Gilman had their child in December 1917 and they married on 20 April 1918, on learning that Gilman's divorce had been finalised.

Harold Gilman soon outpaced Sickert's understanding of post-Impressionism and moved out from under his shadow, using ever stronger colour, under the influence of Van Gogh, Gauguin and Signac.

Harold Gilman visited Scandinavia in 1912 and 1913, and may have travelled with the artist William Ratcliffe, whose relations lived there.

Harold Gilman made studies of the environment, and painted Canal Bridge, Flekkefjord, an accurate depiction, whose subject is likely to have been inspired by Van Gogh's depiction of a similar bridge in Provence.

Harold Gilman had rejected Van Gogh's work when he first encountered it, but later became a strong admirer.

Harold Gilman taught at the Westminster School of Art, where he influenced students such as Mary Godwin, Ruth Doggett, and Marjorie Sherlock.

Harold Gilman died in London on 12 February 1919, of the Spanish flu.