Friday, 24 April 2026

Harry Epworth Allen - part 2

Harry Epworth Allen (1894–1958) was a painter, notably in tempera, especially of Derbyshire. Born in Sheffield, Allen attended King Edward VII School for boys, then became a clerk in the steel works of Arthur Balfour, in his spare time attending Sheffield Technical School of Art. Served in the Army in World War I, gaining the Military Medal for conspicuous gallantry. Although badly injured and having an artificial leg Allen continued to paint and became Balfour’s confidential secretary until the slump made Allen redundant in 1931. He now painted full-time and joined the new Yorkshire Group of Artists. Began exhibiting RA. Also showed with RSBA and PS. Although Allen’s early work is conventionally realistic he soon developed his distinctive style of simplified landscape and figure studies, which eventually were shown abroad in Canada and America.

In the early 1940s Allen published a series of articles in The Artist on landscape painting in which he expounded his approach. His work is in a number of provincial galleries, notably Sheffield, Wakefield, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Newport, as well as in Australia and New Zealand. Memorial show at Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, in 1959, which in 1986 held an exhibition of his decorative works, and tour. He lived in Ecclesall, Sheffield.

This is part 2 of a 2-part post on the works of Harry Epworth Allen: (Dates were not found for the remainder of works in this series)

Crowlink, Sussex
oil on board 45.8 x 62.2 cm

Devil's Bridge, Kirby Lonsdale
watercolour 29 x 39 cm
Central House, Darlington

Derbyshire Landscape near Haddon Hall
oil on canvas laid down on board 51 x 61 cm

Derbyshire Countryside
tempera 15.5 x 20.5 cm

Evening, Clifden Bay
pastel on board 28 by 38 cm

Edward Carpenter's Cottage, Cordwell Valley
gouache 33 x 48 cm

Farmhouse with Country Lane and Trees beyond
watercolour 30.7 x 39.5 cm

Farm Shed
pastel 46.5 x 60 cm

Fell Scene
pastel 27.9 x 35.5 cm

French Landscape
tempera on panel 24.5 x 25 cm

Fishermen mending nets on the Irish Coast
tempera 34 x 50 cm19 x 24 cm

Galway Landscape
oil on canvas 38 x 39 cm

Houses in a Country Landscape
gouache 32 x 48 cm

Irish Peat Gatherers
pastel 27 x 34 cm

Irish Landscape, Lake and Mountains
pastel 28 x 38 cm

Kildonan, Isle of Arran
pastel 25 x 36 cm

Keel Lake, Achill Island
oil on board 35.5 x 51 cm
National Trust, Mount Stewart, Newtownards

Lusk Village
oil on canvas laid on board 49.5 x 59.5 cm

Lithlingow, Sheffield
gouache 24.8 x 33 cm

Polperro
watercolour 16 x 21 cm

Rough Road through a Landscape
pen and ink with watercolour 25 by 38cm

Rocky Landscape
oil on plywood 46.5 x 51 cm
Government Art Collection, London

Road to the Black Hill, Donegal
tempera on millboard 36 x 51 cm

Sir Francis Chantry's birthplace, Jordonthorpe Farm
gouache 34 x 50 cm

Shawlie and Cottages, West of Ireland
pastel 26 x 33.5 cm

Scarborough Castle
oil on board 34.5 x 49.5 cm

Street Scene with three Women
 tempera on card 21 x 17 cm

Soldier taking refreshment
pencil 46 x 30 cm

The Stalactites
pastel on board 36 x 50 cm

The Old Post Office, Norton
tempera on board 27 x 37 cm

The Farmyard
tempera on board 36.8 x 48.2 cm

The Bog Road
tempera on board 26 x 36 cm

Valle Crucis Abbey, Llangollan
oil on board 50.8 x 71.2 cm

Whitby Fishermen mending their Nets on Fish Quay
 tempera 34 x 50 cm

West of Ireland Village
pastel on card 24 x 34 cm

West Gate Southampton
woodcut on paper 22 x 18.4 cm

Wardlow Mires, Derbyshire
wood engraving on Japan paper 17.6 x 25.5 cm (image)


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