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Fairlie Harmar

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Fairlie Harmar
Fairlie Harmar, by Bassano Ltd, 4 May 1937,
National Portrait Gallery, London
Born1876 (1876)
Weymouth, England
Died1945 (aged 68–69)
Known forPainting
SpouseErnest Pomeroy

Fairlie Harmar, Viscountess Harberton (1876–1945) was an English painter. She was born in Weymouth, Dorset, and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art.[1] Lady Harberton was married to Ernest Pomeroy, 7th Viscount Harberton.

As a Viscountess, she attended the 1937 Coronation, she smuggled in drawing paper to make sketches for a painting that was later in the Royal Collection.[2]

Whilst reviewing Lady Harberton's work in 1918, Ezra Pound thought she was a man, writing "Mr. F. Harmer [sic] has put good work into it".[3]

References

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  1. ^ Jon Whiteley, Colin Harrison, Catherine Whistler, Colin Harrison, Catherine Casley (Editors). The Ashmolean Museum Complete Illustrated Catalogue of Paintings. Ashmolean Museum. July 2006. ISBN 978-1-85444-187-4; p. 271
  2. ^ Truksa, Joshua (9 May 2023). "Robe worn to King George VI Coronation on display". Salisbury Journal. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  3. ^ Robert, Scholes. "Fairlie Harmar (1876 - 1945)". Modernist Journals Project. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
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