Harry Norman Eccleston OBE
Harry Norman Eccleston OBE
1923 - 2010
born 1923 in Coseley, West midlands; died in 2010 Upminster, Essex.
Artist, designer and etcher
Harry Norman Eccleston is best known as the first full-time designer of bank notes for the Bank of England, a position he held between 1958 and 1983. Not only improving anti-forgery techniques for paper currency, Eccleston designed the portraits of persons who featured on a range of banknotes, including figures as Isaac Newton, William Shakespeare, Christopher Wren and Florence Nightingale; as well as Queen Elizabeth II. Eccleston attended Bilston School of Art, Birmingham College of Art (1939-42), and the Royal College of Art, London (1947-51). Eccleston's artwork often captured the industrial heritage of the Midlands and Black Country areas - as seen in his oil painting entitled Study for Blast Furnace (1977) held in the Black Country Living Museum collection.
Artist, designer and etcher
Harry Norman Eccleston is best known as the first full-time designer of bank notes for the Bank of England, a position he held between 1958 and 1983. Not only improving anti-forgery techniques for paper currency, Eccleston designed the portraits of persons who featured on a range of banknotes, including figures as Isaac Newton, William Shakespeare, Christopher Wren and Florence Nightingale; as well as Queen Elizabeth II. Eccleston attended Bilston School of Art, Birmingham College of Art (1939-42), and the Royal College of Art, London (1947-51). Eccleston's artwork often captured the industrial heritage of the Midlands and Black Country areas - as seen in his oil painting entitled Study for Blast Furnace (1977) held in the Black Country Living Museum collection.