A Vase of Flowers, 1930, circa
Gertrude Harvey was a painter and regular artists' model. She lived in Penzance, where she met and married the landscape painter, Harold Harvey, in 1911. After marrying, the couple settled in a cottage in Newlyn, Cornwall, with a studio nearby. They lived here throughout the First World War. Harold and Gertrude were close friends with many of the second generation artists, including Dod and Ernest Procter and Laura and Harold Knight.
