Harold Speed

Harold Speed (11 February 1872 - 20 March 1957) was an English painter in oil and watercolour of portraits, figures and historical subjects.

Born in London, the son of Edward Speed, an architect, he studied architecture at the Royal College of Art, but soon took up painting, and continued his studies at the Royal Academy Schools between 1891 and 1896, winning a gold medal and a travelling scholarship in 1893. In 1896, he was elected as a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.

He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1893, and held his first one-man exhibition in 1907 at the Leicester Galleries. In 1930 he provided paintings for the new chapel of Wesley House, Cambridge.

Speed lived in Watlington, Oxfordshire and London, where he died on 20 March 1957.

There are editions of his manual "The practice and science of drawing" (1913) in the public domain.

References

• "Biography". ArtMagick. http://www.artmagick.com/pictures/artist.aspx?artist=harold-speed. Retrieved 2009-02-11. 
• Waters, Grant M. (1975). Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950. Eastbourne Fine Art. ISBN 0902010050. 

Bibliography

• Speed, Harold (1913). The Practice and Science of Drawing. London: Seeley, Service & Co. http://gekos.no/art/Download/19-Ebooks/327-The-Practice-and-Science-Of-Drawing. 

External links

• "Collection at the National Portrait Gallery". National Portrait Gallery. http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp07590&role=art. Retrieved 2009-02-11. 
• Works by or about Harold Speed in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Works by Harold Speed at Project Gutenberg