George Frederick Harris

George Frederick Harris (1856–1924) was a Welsh portrait and landscape painter. He was born in Birmingham, West Midlands, UK on 30 October 1856. Harris lived in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales for most of his life, before emigrating to Australia in 1920. He died in Sydney, Australia of myocarditis and pneumonia. Marriage Harris married Jemima Reid Harris, née Bowmen in Chelmsford, Essex, UK in August 1882. They had two children Claude Harris and Ethel Harris. After Harris divorced with Jemima, he married Rosetta Elizabeth Harris, née Lucas in 1901 and had nine children. Pixie O'Harris is one of his children who is well known as a children's book author and illustrator, and Rolf Harris, who was an Australian entertainer and painter, was Harris's grandson. Life Harris was a chairman and secretary of the South Wales Art Society, Cadiff, Wales, and had a business of portrait and photography in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales before emigrating to Australia in 1920. Collections The Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Merthyr Tydfil is holding the collection of portraits by George Frederick Harris.