Harry Becker British, 1865-1928

Harry Becker's  artworks come in charcoal, watercolour and oil. In whatever medium he chose for that day, and in all weathers, he had a driven passion to record. Indeed many of his sketches and watercolours bear the scars of the rain and pinhole marks from his boards. He was totally accepted by the farm labourers who he depicted in their daily toil to make a unique historic record of those last years before farming became the mechanised "big business" that we see today. Together with the paintings of the Heavy Horse teams and grazing cattle his work has become highly sort after by both Suffolk farmers and collectors alike.

Just as a particularly successful London exhibition was under way in 1912, he uprooted himself, his beloved wife and family to Suffolk. With a zeal and outlook very reminiscent of Vincent van Gogh whose work he knew and admired, Harry threw himself into drawing and painting the landscapes, people and animals he found around him.