The Painting
A watercolour measuring 8" x 121/2". Signed Harry Morley. Provenance: with the Fine
Art Society (label verso dated September 1944).
About the Artist
Harry Morley (1881-1943) was born in Leicester and educated at the Alderman Newton
School, Leicester and at the Leicester School of Art (Department of Architecture).
He entered the architectural practice of Professor Beresford Pite in 1901. In 1905
he visited Italy, having won travelling scholarships from both the Royal Institute
of British Architects and the Royal College of Art. As a result he decided to give
up architecture for painting. He spent the following year in Paris studying at Julien’s
atelier and under other masters. He was elected a Member of the Royal Watercolour
Society (in 1927), a Member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers (1929), an Associate
of the Royal Academy of Arts (1936), a Member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters
(1936), and a Master of the Art Workers’ Guild (1936).
The Subject
Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex.
