Lesson Time, 1908

Harrington Mann (1864 - 1937)

RA Collection: Art

Harrington Mann studied at Glasgow School of Art, the Slade School under Legros and in Paris and Rome. In the 1880's he was a member of the 'Glasgow Boys' group. A painter of landscapes, genre scenes he began specialising in portraiture in 1893 and became well known for his portraits of children.

Mann, like Sargent, who he greatly admired worked in the USA and for several years had studio in New York. He said that Sargent paid him the 'greatest compliment of his life', when two weeks before his death stated that he intended to vote him into the Royal Academy (Sara Henderson citing Mann's manuscript for unpublished autobiography in The Glasgow Boys Part One: The Artists and their Works, Exh. cat. Edinburgh: The Scottish Arts Council, 1971, p. 59).