Biography
Harold Squire (b. Valparaiso, Chile 1881 - d. Henfield, Sussex, UK 1959) came to England at the age of ten and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, and at Newlyn under Stanhope Forbes (1857-1947). He exhibited with the New English Art Club in 1913, becoming a member in 1919, and with The London Group at the Goupil Gallery in 1914. Squire was a member of the Council of the Arts League of Service and it was through this organisation that he met Charles Rennnie Mackintosh. The Exhibition of Practical Arts organised by the League in 1919 included a number of rugs hand-woven to his designs, and in the same exhibition he showed a Design for Curtains for a Travelling Theatre – no doubt intended for the League's own touring players. In 1926 his work was included in an exhibition of flower paintings at the Claridge Gallery, and in the same year he acquired Springhead, an estate in Dorset where he created a garden. In 1939 he built The Hundred at Henfield, Sussex, where he lived until his death. He bequeathed £1000 to the Artists' Benevolent Fund, to aid 'young, needy artist painters'.
