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Harold Fraser Bell (28 April 1861 - 14 February 1902) was a Scottish painter; and also for a time had a company that manufactured paper.

Life
His father was John Duncanson Bell (11 October 1828 - 14 January 1908), a watercolour painter from Dollar.

His mother was Jane Fraser Hogg (29 September 1893 - 1 March 1896) from Edinburgh. John and Jane married on 13 June 1856 in Edinburgh.

Harold Fraser Bell was born on 28 April 1861 in Anderston, Glasgow. His elder brother was the artist John Munro Bell (20 November 1862 - 4 November 1918).

Harold Fraser Bell married Jessie Scott Haldane (13 March 1863 - 19 January 1941) in Edinburgh in 1886.

Both Harold and John had set up a business H. F. Bell & Company as paper manufacturers, but the business went bankrupt at the end of April 1888.

On his mother's death Harold Fraser Bell took his brother John Munro Bell to court for £200. John Munro Bell was the executor of his mother's estate. The claim was complicated by a provision in his mother's will to leave a 'liferent' to her husband.

Art
He exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy his work: A Touch Of Autumn In The New Forest in 1891.

Death
He died in Edinburgh on 14 February 1902. He is buried in Warriston Cemetery.