Harry Tittensor

1887-1942

British (England, Normandy, Brittany)

Beginning his career as a ceramic painter and designer, Harry Tittensor concentrated on oils and watercolors from 1925 onward. He then specialized in atmospheric topographical subjects, with and without figures. He exhibited most frequently at the Royal Academy, the Fine Art Society and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolors, becoming a member of the last in 1931. He also produced artwork for carriage posters for London and North Eastern Railways. As an educator, he taught at The Wedgwood Institute, and contributed an article on ‘Water-Colour and the Picturesque’ to The Studio in 1935.