Little is known of the life of the artist Harold Conway. He was born on the 27th January 1872 in Wimbledon, studied at the Slade and Académie Julian (where he likely met other future members of the Staithes Group), and lived for most of his life in Burford, Oxfordshire. He likely went by the name 'Edward Conway' in everyday life, as he sometimes signed his paintings with just this. The artist seems to have been primarily a painter of flowers, both as still lifes (in minutely detailed oil paintings) and as the primary subject of a landscape (in much looser watercolour paintings). Harold Conway exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, and the Goupil Gallery, London. His date of death is unknown, however it was certainly after 1928, as a painting by him bearing this date is in the collection of the Pannett Gallery, Whitby.
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