Editing Harry Clarke (section)

==Early life==
Henry Patrick Clarke was born on 17 March 1889, the younger son and third child of Joshua Clarke and Brigid (née MacGonigal) Clarke.<ref name="Andrews and White">{{cite book|last1=Andrews|first1=Helen|last2=White|first2=Lawrence William|editor1-last=McGuire|editor1-first=James|editor2-last=Quinn|editor2-first=James|title=Dictionary of Irish Biography|date=2009|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|chapter=Clarke, Harry (Henry Patrick)}}</ref> Joshua Clarke was a church decorator who moved to Dublin from [[Leeds]] in 1877 and started a decorating business, Joshua Clarke & Sons, which later incorporated a stained glass division. Through his work with his father, Clarke was exposed to many schools of art but Art Nouveau in particular.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

Clarke was educated at the Model School in Marlborough Street, Dublin and [[Belvedere College]], which he left in 1905. He was devastated by the death of his mother in 1903 when he was only 14 years old.<ref>[http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/The-extraordinary-stained-glass-windows-of-Irishman-Harry-Clarke-PHOTOS.html The Irish genius behind the world's most iconic stained glass windows], Irish Central, 5 June 2016.</ref><ref name="Hugh Lane">{{cite web|title=About Harry Clarke (1889-1931)|url=http://www.hughlane.ie/eve-of-st-agnes-by-harry-clarke2|website=The Hugh Lane Gallery|access-date=10 May 2015}}</ref> Clarke was then apprenticed into his father's studio and attended evening classes in the [[National College of Art and Design|Metropolitan College of Art and Design]]. His ''The Consecration of [[Saint Mel|St Mel]], [[Bishop (Catholic Church)|Bishop]] of [[Longford]], by [[Saint Patrick|St Patrick]]'' won the gold medal for stained glass work in the 1910 Board of Education National Competition.<ref name="Andrews and White"/> He won the Gold Medal for stained glass at the 1911, 1912, and 1913 South Kensington National Competitions. He also exhibited at the 1912 International Art Congress in Dresden, Germany, and the 1914 {{lang|fr|Exposition des Arts Décoratifs de G. Bretagne et d'Irlande|italic=no}} at the [[Louvre]] in Paris.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bowe |first=Nicola Gordon |date=1985 |title=The Arts and Crafts Society of Ireland (1894-1925) with particular reference to Harry Clarke |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41809143 |journal=The Journal of the Decorative Arts Society 1850 - the Present |issue=9 |pages=29–40 |issn=0260-9568 |jstor=41809143}}</ref>

At the art school in Dublin, Clarke met fellow artist and teacher, [[Margaret Clarke (artist)|Margaret Crilley]].<ref name="Andrews and White"/> They married on 31 October 1914 and moved into a flat at 33 [[North Frederick Street]]. In subsequent years the Clarkes lived in various locations in Dublin, including a semi-detached house in Cabra in which Margaret Clarke painted her husband at work. The Clarkes had three children, Michael, David, and Ann.<ref name="Andrews and White"/>