{{Short description|Scottish painter (1864–1937)}} {{EngvarB|date=January 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}} {{Infobox artist | name = Harrington Mann | image =Harrington Mann LCCN2014718884 (cropped).jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 7 October 1864 | birth_place = Glasgow | death_date = {{death date and age|1937|02|28|1864|10|07|df=yes}} | death_place = New York | spouse = | field = Portraiture | training = | movement = Glasgow Boys | works = ''A Fairy-Tale'' (1902) | patrons = | awards = | elected = | website = }}
'''Harrington Mann''' (7 October 1864 – 28 February 1937) was a Scottish portrait artist and decorative painter. He was a member of the Glasgow Boys movement in the 1880s.
==Art career==
Mann was born in Glasgow and began his studies at the Glasgow School of Art.<ref name=McTears/> He then studied at the Slade School of Fine 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<ref name=Tate>{{cite web | url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/harrington-mann-1569 | title=Harrington Mann 1864-1937 | publisher=Tate Gallery | accessdate=7 October 2012}}</ref> at the Academie Julian for a short time.<ref name=McTears>{{cite web | url=http://www.mctears.co.uk/news/view.aspx?id=c1b88afe-aa59-420f-bde6-6e1c79bdf14c | title=Pigs and Clowns? | publisher=Mctear's | work=The eclectic subjects of Harrington Mann | date=20 March 2012 | accessdate=7 October 2012}}</ref>
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.<ref name=McTears/>
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. and W. Guthrie (which became Guthrie and Wells).<ref name=Whistler/> 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.<ref name=McTears/> In London, he found success in society portraits, especially of children and including members of the British royal family.<ref name=Whistler/> thumb|265px|right|''Lesson Time'' (1908) [[File:Harrington_Mann_(1864-1937)_Cathleen_(1906)_MSK_Gent_22-11-2015.JPG|thumb|265px|''Cathleen'' (1906), painted by her father at the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent]]
Mann's use of colour was influenced by James McNeill Whistler. His bold brushwork shows the influence of John Singer Sargent.<ref name=McTears/>
Mann was one of the founder members of the National Portrait Society in 1911.<ref name=Tate/>
==Family==
He was the second son of John Mann (1827–1910), a chartered accountant, and Mary Newton Harrington (1834–1917), a novelist.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/eyrwho/eyrwho1239.htm | title=Who's Who in Glasgow in 1909 | publisher=Glasgow Digital Library | work=John Mann | accessdate=8 October 2012}}</ref> John's father was also a painter, John Mann (1797-1827).<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/biog/display/?bid=Mann_MN | title=The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler | publisher=University of Glasgow | work=Mary Newton Mann, 1834-1917 | accessdate=8 October 2012}}</ref>
Mann married the interior decorator Florence Sabine-Pasley (known as Dolly Mann).
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 J.R. Follett.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/sitA-Z/sitf.php | title=Sitters A to Z | publisher=National Portrait Gallery | work=Cathleen Sabine Follett (née Mann) (1896–1959) | year=2012 | accessdate=8 October 2012}}</ref>
==Works== thumb|right|265px|Portrait of Alice Marjorie Cunningham (d.1943) with her daughters Marjorie and Millicent (1902) Mann painted a large number of society portraits, including the following.<ref name=Whistler>{{cite web | url=http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/people/biog/?bid=Mann_H&initial=M | title=The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler | publisher=University of Glasgow | work=Harrington Mann, 1864–1937 | accessdate=7 October 2012}}</ref>
; Portraits * ''The Fairy Tale'', 1902<ref name=Tate/> * ''Miss Tibbie Nairn'', 1900<ref>[http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artist.php?artistid=789 Art Renewal Center Museum: Harrington Mann]</ref> * ''The Red Hat'', 1920<ref>[http://www.maasgallery.co.uk/component/joomgallery/british-pictures-2012/48-harrington-mann-rp-re-neac-1864-1937-413 The Maas Gallery: Harrington Mann]</ref>
; Decorative paintings * ''The Study for Mardi Gras'', 1910<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mctears.co.uk/auctions/lot.aspx?id=4a89d105-6a3b-4d2d-a5cd-b13a84defa32&referrer=browse&page=1 |title=McTears: Harrington Mann |access-date=7 October 2012 |archive-date=10 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110115908/http://www.mctears.co.uk/auctions/lot.aspx?id=4a89d105-6a3b-4d2d-a5cd-b13a84defa32&referrer=browse&page=1 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
; Landscapes * ''Boy and Black Pigs'', 1886<ref>{{YouTube|bNHEtUPrJgc|Video by Christina Hirukawa of Mctears}}</ref> * ''Tangiers'', 1889<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bournefineart.com/Artist/p/artist/451 |title=Bourne Fine Art: Harrington Mann |access-date=7 October 2012 |archive-date=10 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110115350/http://www.bournefineart.com/Artist/p/artist/451 |url-status=dead }}</ref> *''Café en Provence,'' 1930<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://collections.mnbaq.org/fr/oeuvre/600003015|title=Café en Provence|website=collections.mnbaq.org|access-date=2019-05-12}}</ref>
; Interiors
In 1888, Mann painted the interior of the hall of the Ewing Gilmour Institute for Girls, Smollet Street (and Gilmour Street), Alexandria, near Glasgow, designed by John Archibald Campbell. (The building has been known as a Masonic Hall since 1915.)<ref>{{cite web | url=http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/165583/details/alexandria+35+smollet+street+ewing+gilmour+institute+for+girls/ | title=Canmore (database) | publisher=RCAHMS | work=Alexandria, 35 Smollet Street, Ewing Gilmour Institute for Girls | date=April 2007 | accessdate=9 October 2012}}</ref>
==Exhibitions==
Mann's works are today exhibited in the Tate Gallery and in the Glasgow Museums.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/yourpaintings/2012/08/the-glasgow-boy-from-belfast-s.shtml | title=The Glasgow Boy from Belfast: Sir John Lavery | publisher=BBC | work=Sir John Lavery (portrait by Harrington Mann) | date=30 August 2012 | accessdate=9 October 2012 | author=Mitchelson, Alison}}</ref>
* Royal Academy from 1885 onwards<ref name=Tate/> * International Society from 1898 onwards<ref name=Tate/> * Leicester Galleries, 1908 (solo)<ref name=Tate/>
==Reception== thumb|right|265px|''A Fairy-Tale'' (1902) ''The Century Magazine'' of 1908 praised Mann and his painting ''A Fairy-Tale''. Mann, the magazine reported, had "always showed singular versatility, having devoted himself by turns to decorative cartoons for stained glass, to mural painting, landscape, genre, and portraiture." The magazine went on "While his likenesses usually maintain a high level of attainment, it is in certain less formal portrait groups that Mr. Mann reveals perhaps the most sympathetic and attractive phase of his talent." Of ''A Fairy-Tale'', the magazine opined that he displayed "refreshing charm and [a] touch of juvenile romance".<ref>{{cite journal | url=http://www.sgm.abelgratis.com/780301f.htm | title=Two Notable Pictures: Harrington Mann's 'A Fairy-Tale' | journal=The Century Magazine | author=Brinton, Christian | date=March 1908 | volume=LXXV | issue=5 | pages=800–801 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040818210203/http://www.sgm.abelgratis.com/780301f.htm | archivedate=2004-08-18 }}</ref>
==Death== Mann died in New York City on 28 February 1937.
==References==
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==Bibliography==
* Chamot, Mary; Farr, Dennis; Butlin, Martin. ''The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture'', London 1964, II. * Wood, Christopher, ''The Dictionary of Victorian Artists'' 2nd edition, Woodbridge, 1978.
==External links== {{Commons category|Harrington Mann}} * {{Art UK bio}} * [http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artist.php?artistid=789 Art Renewal Center Museum: Harrington Mann] (paintings by Mann, and 2 photographs of the artist) * [http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15324coll8/id/10693 Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries: Catalogue of New Portraits by Harrington Mann], 1912 (lists 10 portraits inc. Lady Diana Manners) * [https://archive.today/20130224022314/http://irapl.altervista.org/nit/viewpics.php?title=Duchess+of+Rutland+and+Harrington+Mann Duchess of Rutland and Harrington Mann]
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