Archibald Standish Hartrick (7 August 1864 – 1 February 1950) was a Scottish painter known for the quality of his lithographic work. His works covered urban scenes, landscapes and figure painting and he was a founder member of the

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Life and work

Hartrick was born in

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, the son of an officer in the British Army. The family moved to Scotland when Hartrick was two years old. His father died shortly afterwards and in due course his mother married Charles Blatherwick, a doctor and keen amateur watercolourist who had been involved in the establishment of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. After attending Fettes College, Hartrick studied medicine at Edinburgh University before studying art at the

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in London and then at both the

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and the

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in Paris. Hartrick spent the summer of 1886 at Pont-Aven with

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. In Paris he had become friends with

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and Toulouse-Lautrec and exhibited a work at the

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in 1887. Hartrick drew and painted Gauguin, van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec during his time in France. Hartrick returned to Scotland and for a while settled in Glasgow, where he came to know the Glasgow Boys, before he moved to London. There he began work as a book illustrator and as an illustrator with ''

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'' in 1890, then with the ''

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'' in 1893. Hartrick became a prolific magazine artist and also provided illustrations for the magazine ''

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'', for the '' Daily Chronicle'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. Also in 1890, Hartrick joined the New English Art Club. From 1895 until 1907, he exhibited regularly at the

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. In 1896 he married the painter Lily Blatherwick, the daughter of Charles Blatherwick from his first marriage. The couple settled in

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in Gloucestershire, from where they both pursued their artistic careers; they both had works shown at the Continental Gallery in 1901. Hatrick and his wife later redecorated the small church in Tresham and she is buried in the graveyard there. Hartrick moved to London, where he taught drawing at the Camberwell School of Art from 1908 to 1914 and later at the Central School of Art, where he taught lithography until 1929. At Camberwell he taught David Jones. In 1909 Hartrick was among the founding members of the

and later became a Vice-President of the club. In 1910 Hartrick was elected an associate member of the Royal Watercolour Society and became a full member in 1920. Eventually Hartrick had over 200 works shown at the Royal Watercolour Society and he also exhibited at the

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on three occasions. His work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the

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. A series of his works showing rural characters, entitled ''Cotswold Types'' was acquired by the

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. During the First World War, Hartrick contributed works to the British War Memorials Committee collection of artworks. In 1917 Hartrick produced six lithographs on ''Women's Work'' for the War Propaganda Bureau's ''Britain's Efforts and Ideals'' portfolio of images which were exhibited in Britain and abroad and were also sold as prints to raise money for the war effort. During the war he also produced a series of twelve lithographs under the title ''London in Wartime''. At the start of the Second World War, he was among the first to offer his services to the War Artists' Advisory Committee. In 1940 he was the first artist commissioned to record the work of the

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, the same subject he had covered in World War One. Prints of his work were sold in at the

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during the war and featured in the ''Britain at War'' exhibition that opened at the

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in New York in May 1941. During the war, Hatrick also painted scenes near his former home at Tresham in Gloustershire for the

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scheme. The Arts Council organized a memorial exhibition for Hartrick in 1951.

Published works

* 1916: ''Post-impressionism, with some personal recollections of Vincent Van Gogh & Paul Gauguin'' * 1932: ''Lithography as a Fine Art'' * 1939: ''A Painter's Pilgrimage through Fifty Years''.

References

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