1. Harrington Mann was a Scottish portrait artist and decorative painter.
13 Facts About Harrington Mann
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Harrington Mann was a member of the Glasgow Boys movement in the 1880s.
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Harrington Mann then studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London under professor Alphonse Legros.
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Harrington Mann then studied in Paris under the guidance of the figure painters Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre at the Academie Julian for a short time.
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Harrington Mann began to develop a name for himself in portrait painting in the 1890s.
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Harrington Mann had a strong sense of colour and design for decorating interior walls and for stained glass.
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Harrington Mann was one of the founder members of the National Portrait Society in 1911.
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Harrington Mann was the second son of John Mann, a chartered accountant, and Mary Newton Harrington, a novelist.
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Harrington Mann married the interior decorator Florence Sabine-Pasley.
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Harrington Mann had three daughters, who appeared in several of his paintings, including Cathleen Sabine, an artist, who married Francis Douglas, 11th Marquess of Queensberry and then JR Follett.
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Harrington Mann painted a large number of society portraits, including the following.
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In 1888, Harrington Mann painted the interior of the hall of the Ewing Gilmour Institute for Girls, Smollet Street, Alexandria, near Glasgow, designed by John Archibald Campbell.
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Harrington Mann's works are today exhibited in the Tate Gallery and in the Glasgow Museums.