Biography
Harold Percy Steggles (b. Highbury, London, 1911 - d. Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire 1971), brother of the artist Walter Steggles (1908-1997) was notable for his small-scale town and landscapes. By profession he was a partner in a firm of solicitors, Seaton Taylor, Solicitors, 5, Grey’s Inn Square but studied at Bow and Bromley Evening Institute, at Wolverley Street under Mr O'Connor, John Cooper (1894-1943), William Coldstream (1908-1987), Rodrigo Moynihan (1910-1990) and Gerald Judah Ososki (1903-1981). Steggles received many commissions to paint country and London houses, shops and restaurants, with a series of meticulously delineated London club views for the collector and artist Villiers David (1906-1985). He showed extensively with the East London Group at the Alex. Reid & Lefevre galleries, sharing an exhibition there with his brother in 1938. He also exhbited at Agnew's, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Manchester Art Gallery, which holds his work, and abroad. Along with his brother and fellow ELG members, Brynhild Parker and Elwin Hawthorne, Steggles was commissioned by Jack Beddington at Shell-Mex BP Ltd to produce designs for their iconic EVERYWHERE YOU GO - YOU CAN BE SURE OF SHELL poster campaign series, which was a view of Bungay in Suffolk (1936).
