Fairlie Harmar, Viscountess Harberton (1876–1945) was an English painter. She was born in Weymouth,

Dorset Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset (unitary authority), Dors ...

, and studied at the

Slade School of Fine Art The UCL Slade School of Fine Art (informally The Slade) is the art school of University College London (UCL) and is based in London, England. It has been ranked as the UK's top art and design educational institution. The school is organised as ...

.Jon Whiteley, Colin Harrison,

Catherine Whistler Catherine Whistler is an Irish art historian and curator, specialising in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art. She is Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum, a supernumerary fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and Professor of the History ...

, Colin Harrison, Catherine Casley (Editors). ''The Ashmolean Museum Complete Illustrated Catalogue of Paintings.'' Ashmolean Museum. July 2006. ; p. 271 Lady Harberton was married to Ernest Pomeroy, 7th Viscount Harberton. Whilst reviewing Lady Harberton's work in 1918,

Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Fascism, fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works ...

thought she was a man, writing "Mr. F. Harmer ichas put good work into it".

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* 1876 births 1945 deaths 19th-century English women artists 19th-century English painters 20th-century English women artists 20th-century English painters Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery English women painters

Harberton Harberton is a village, civil parish and former manor 3 miles south west of Totnes, in the South Hams District of Devon, England. The parish includes the village of Harbertonford situated on the main A381 road. In the 2001 census the parish ...

People from Weymouth, Dorset {{England-painter-stub