Archibald Standish Hartrick (1864-1950)
Painter, illustrator, draughtsman and lithographer.
Hartrick studied at Edinburgh University, at the Slade School under Legros, and in Paris at the Académie Julian, and under Cormon before 1887.
He exhibited his first picture at the Paris Salon. In Paris he met Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec and other artists, and Gauguin in Brittany. When he returned to Scotland, he came into contact with the artists of the Glasgow School.
From 1889 Hartrick worked in London as an illustrator for The Graphic, The Pall Mall Magazine, etc. He was member of the N.E.A.C. 1893; R.W.S. 1910; one of the founders of the Senefelder Club; exhibited at the R.A. 1895–1907.
With his wife Lily Blatherwick, also an artist, he lived in Gloucestershire, where he painted mainly landscape and country scenes. Exhibited with his wife at the Continental Gallery 1901.
Back in London he took up teaching at Camberwell School of Art and later at the Central School. Author of A Painter's Pilgrimage through Fifty Years 1939.