哈罗德速度（1872年2月11日- 20 1957年3月）是英国画家在油和水彩肖像，人物和历史题材的。

出生在伦敦，爱德华速度，建筑师的儿子，他学建筑在皇家艺术学院，但很快就拿起画，继续他的研究在英国皇家学院学校 1891年和1896年之间，赢得了金牌和行驶奖学金于1893年。1896年，他当选为成员的肖像画家英国皇家学会。

他陈列在皇家艺术学院1893年，并在1907年举办首次一个人的展览莱斯特画廊。1930年，他的新教堂提供绘画韦斯利家，剑桥。

高速住在沃特林顿，牛津和伦敦，在那里他于20 1957年3月去世。

由于他们的智能实用的建议和对自然和艺术实践的意义敏感反射结合，哈罗德速度对绘画教学手册，长期以来被认为是宝贵的资源，为艺术家。有他的手册中的“实践和绘画的科学”（1913年）的版本公共领域。

Harold Speed (11 February 1872 - 20 March 1957) was an English painter in oil and watercolour of portraits, figures and historical subjects.

Born in London, the son of Edward Speed, an architect, he studied architecture at the Royal College of Art, but soon took up painting, and continued his studies at the Royal Academy Schools between 1891 and 1896, winning a gold medal and a travelling scholarship in 1893. In 1896, he was elected as a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.

He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1893, and held his first one-man exhibition in 1907 at the Leicester Galleries. In 1930 he provided paintings for the new chapel of Wesley House, Cambridge.

Speed lived in Watlington, Oxfordshire and London, where he died on 20 March 1957.

Because of their intelligent combination of useful advice and sensitive reflection on the nature and meaning of artistic practice, Harold Speed's instructional manuals on drawing and painting have long been considered valuable resources for artists. There are editions of his manual "The Practice and Science of Drawing" (1913) in the public domain.