Fairlie Harmar (1876-1945)

Fairlie Harmar, Viscountess Harberton (1876–1945) was an English painter of florals, landscapes and portraits. She was born in Weymouth, Dorset, and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. Lady Harberton was married to Ernest Pomeroy, 7th Viscount Harberton. As a Viscountess, she attended the 1937 Coronation, she smuggled in drawing paper to make sketches for a painting that was later in the Royal Collection. Whilst reviewing Lady Harberton's work in 1918, Ezra Pound thought she was a man, writing Mr. F. Harmer has put good work into it. She exhibited over 30 paintings at the Royal Academy under her maiden name between 1929-1944, the year before she died, aged sixty nine.