Thomas Erat Harrison (1858–1917) was an English artist who made sculptures, medals, paintings, and stained glass.[1]
Biography
Harrison was born in
St John's Wood, London; his father was a builder.[2] He was active between 1885 and 1910. He exhibited at the
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, at the Annual Autumn Exhibition of Modern Pictures in Oil and Water Colour, and Architectural Designs at
Nottingham Castle Museum, and at the Art Workers Guild. Among his works are streetscapes and portraits.[1][3][4][5]
He contributed a painting to an 1882 book Bedford Park, celebrating the then-fashionable
garden suburb of that name.[6]
'November Astride the Centaur' drawing for stained glass at Betteshanger House, Kent, 1880s, alluding to
Sagittarius and The Faerie Queene
References
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ab"Thomas Erat Harrison". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951 University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database. 2011. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
^Farmer, Norman K. Jr. (1990). ""A Monument Forever More": "The Faerie Queene" and British Art, 1770 – 1950". The Princeton University Library Chronicle. 52 (1): 25–77.
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10.2307/26403783.
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