Herbert Arnould Olivier

Herbert Arnould Olivier, R.I. (9 September 1861 – 2 March 1952), was a British artist, best known for his portrait and landscape paintings. He was an uncle of Laurence Olivier.

Olivier was born in Battle, East Sussex, England, where his father Henry Arnold Olivier was a clergyman. His brothers were Henry (1850–1935), who had a military career, ending as a colonel;Sydney (the father of Noël and Daphne), who became Governor of Jamaica and later Secretary of State for India; and Gerard (1869–1939), a clergyman (the father of Laurence Olivier). He also had four sisters.

Olivier was educated between 1875 and 1877 at Sherborne School, a public school in Dorset and in 1922 gave his painting Easter Morn to the school. The painting was originally intended for a church in Italy but it was put in such a bad light that he refused to leave it there. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools beginning in 1881, where he won the Creswick Prize in 1882.

Olivier exhibited extensively, including the Royal Academy starting in 1883, the R. P., the R. I. and the Paris Salon. He taught at the Bombay School of Art in the 1880s. He went to Kashmir with the Duke and Duchess of Connaught in 1884. In 1885 he showed 66 of the paintings from his trip to Kashmir at the Fine Art Society. These works were considered "effective, though hard and coarse in colour" by critics. He had a one-man exhibition at the Grafton Galleries in 1908.

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