Lot 953: Archibald Standish Hartrick RWS 1864-1950- Two

Archibald Standish Hartrick RWS 1864-1950- Two elderly men and a young woman engaged in conversation, with figures loading tall ships in a distant port, traditionally held to be the Isle of Wight; black chalk and crayon heightened with white, original artwork illustration possibly intended for publication, signed and dated 1902. Note: Archibald Standish Hartrick attended the Slade School of Art in London, then moved to Paris with a group of Slade and Royal Academy students, attending first the Attelier Julian, and then the Atelier Cormon. By the time he exhibited his first painting at the Paris Salon, he had already become friends with Paul Gaugin, Vincent Van Gogh and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec whom he met while painting one summer at Pont-Aven, Britanny in 1886. Hartrick became a founding member of London's Senefelder Club, named after the artist who had invented lithography in 1771. Briefly returning to his home on the Firth of Clyde, Scotland, in 1887, he joined a group of young, Paris-trained painters in the "Glasgow School," he later illustrated Hardy's tale of fashionable country-life and self-sacrifice in an urban slum, "A Changed Man". From 1895 through 1907 he exhibited landscapes and character studies at the Royal Academy, being elected an Associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-colours RWS, 1908, by which time he had also become drawing-master at the London County Council School of Arts and Crafts at Camberwell, secured through testimonials of Sir George Clausen, John Singer Sargent, William Strang, and Sir Charles Holroyd. Hartrick, AS (RWS) A Painter's Pilgrimage Through Fifty Years, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1939.