ARCHIBALD STANDISH HARTRICK (1864-1950) 'The Ancestors'

ARCHIBALD STANDISH HARTRICK (1864-1950) 'The Ancestors' Figures in a church interior, signed lower right, watercolour, 36cm x 54cm; together with a watercolour study of a cottage by Hartrick, 26cm x 40cm; a full-length study of a Morris Dancer by Hartrick; a small cache of ephemera about Hartrick, including correspondence betwenn Hartrick and Lines; and a print of an exotic nude with inscription below "To A.S. Hartrick from his grateful pupil Clarke Hutton, 1929" (a lot) Painter, illustrator and writer, A.S. Hartrick grew up in Scotland where he was educated at Fettes College. Studied at Edinburgh University, the Slade School of Fine Art, 1884-85, Glasgow School of Art and, between 1886 and 1887, at both the Académie Julian and Atelier Carmon in Paris where he met Gauguin, Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec. He worked as an illustrator for the 'Daily Graphic', 1890-93, the 'Pall Mall Magazine', from 1893, and later produced work for the Ministry of Information during the First World War. He married his step-sister the artist Lily Blatherwick (1859-1934). He was a founder member of the Senefelder Club, 1904, taught evening classes in lithography at the Central School of Art during the 1920s and was the author of 'Lithography as a Fine Art', 1934. Vincent Lines studied at the Central School of Art under Hartrick, and it would appear the pair remained close.