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Harold Squire (1881-1959)


Harold Squire, LG NEAC (1881-1959)

Harold Squire was a painter of landscapes, flowers and occasional figure subjects in a refined Post-Impressionist style. Having taken lessons from Augustus John, he often employed spare landscape motifs similar to those of John Dickson Innes and Derwent Lees, artists in John’s circle. However, his handling is more comparable to that of Lucien Pissarro, who exhibited with him in 1913 in a show of independence from the London Group. In addition to easel painting, he displayed an interest in interior design, and associated with a number of key artist-designers of the age, including the architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (who designed a studio-house for him), and members of the Bloomsbury Group.

Harold Squire was born at Quinta Esmeralda, Las Zorras, Valparaiso, Chile, and was one of the (probably five) children of Walter Squire, the director of a copper mining company, and his wife, Evelyn (née Pike). He arrived in England at the age of 10, probably to attend school at Haileybury, in Hertfordshire, as did at least one of his brothers, Geoffrey Pike Squire.

Squire studied first at the Slade School of Fine Art, in London; then – by 1901 – under Stanhope Forbes, in Newlyn, Cornwall; and latterly at the Académie Julian, in Paris.

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