# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harold-piffard
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:04:29.003Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harold-piffard"
name: "Harold Piffard"
slug: "harold-piffard"
description: "Harold Hume Piffard was a British artist, illustrator, and one of the first British aviators. He studied art at the Royal Academy Schools in London, exhibiting his first painting at the Royal Academy in 1895. He painted a wide variety of subjects in oils and watercolour, including history paintings. At the same time he worked as an illustrator, both for periodicals such as The Strand Magazine and The Illustrated London News, and illustrating novels. From 1907 he became interested in aviation, and began flying in 1909 in an aircraft he built himself. He made his first flights in West London near his Chiswick home; in 1910 he flew at Shoreham-by-Sea, near his old school, Lancing College."
tagline: "English painter and illustrator (1867–1939)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/H._Piffard_-_The_Thin_Red_Line_-_restoration.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1867"
deathDate: "1939"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.77
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.005904
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_H._Piffard"
    title: "Harold H. Piffard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_H._Piffard"
    title: "Harold H. Piffard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%A7%DA%86.%D9%BE%DB%8C%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "هارولد اچ.پیفارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%93_%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9D_%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%93"
    title: "הרולד יום פיפרד"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_H._Piffard"
    title: "Harold H. Piffard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21466172"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump