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Harrington Mann was a Scottish portrait artist and decorative painter as well as a member of the Glasgow Boys movement in the 1880s.

He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London and later at the Academie Julian. His early paintings featured the fishing community of Yorkshire though he soon made a name for himself within the community as a portrait painter. In 1900, he moved to London while simultaneously establishing a studio in New York, where he found commercial success with his paintings. In London, he found success with society portraits, being commissioned to paint members of the Royal British Family.

He later became a founding member of the National Portrait Society in 1911.