The Old Slip, Newlyn (1908)

Penzance – born Harold Harvey (1874 – 1941) trained at the Penzance School of Arts under Norman Garstin (June 22^nd) and the Académie Julian in Paris (1894–1896) followed by further study at the Académie Delecluse and the Academie Colarossi becoming famous with his outdoor scenes in Cornwall as shown above (top left and top right).

Returning to Cornwall to work again with Norman Garstin, he married fellow artist, Gertrude Bodinnar. The newly married couple moved to Newlyn becoming stalwarts of the Newlyn School of Artists and close friends of Dame Laura Knight (July 7^th), Annie Walke (July 6^th) and her husband Father Bernard Walke (June 15^th), Ernest Procter (October 21^st), Dod Procter (July 31^st) and Midge Bruford (April 2^nd).  Harvey painted Bruford and her then fiancé, Richard Weatherby in a coastal setting (top centre).  In 1920, Harvey and his best friend Ernest Procter established the Harvey-Procter School in Newlyn offering tuition in watercolours and oils and which operated throughout the 1920s.