Harold Speed – On Painting a Head,and The Science and Practice of Oil Painting
by Matthew Innis |Hensley Henson, Bishop of Durham (1929)140 X 112 cmoil on canvasIn 1924, British portrait and landscape painter, Harold Speed (1852-1957) published a follow-up to his highly successful The Science and Practice of Drawing (Seeley, Service & Co. London, 1913), with a book titled The Science and Practice of Oil Painting.  With its re-issues and reprints, it would not be surprising…