Harold Hope Read (British) 1881 – 1959
Titled: Fishermen Beneath a pier
Watercolour on paper
Signed
Size 24cm x 34cm
 
Harold Hope Read was born on the 3rd of December 1881 at 52, Blackheath Road, Greenwich, which at that time was in the County of Kent.
Harold Hope Read was the youngest of three sons born to Samuel Sabine and Emma Margaret Read, (formerly Woolfe), His mother died when he was 2 years old and he was raised by a Governess and subsequent step-mother, Emily.