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Tomás Harris

Tomás "Tommy" Joseph Harris (10 April 1908 – 27 January 1964) was a British art dealer and artist, who also served as an MI5 intelligence officer during World War II. As a Spanish-speaker, he worked with Juan Pujol García, a very important double agent in the Double Cross System.

Born of a Spanish mother, Enriqueta Rodriguez, and an English father, Lionel Harris, an art dealer specialising in Spanish paintings, he grew up in a Jewish household in Hampstead, his mother having converted to Judaism at the time of the marriage, Harris continued his father's successful art dealing business, and was essentially an amateur artist himself. Harris had an important collection of Spanish prints, especially those of Francisco Goya, which was mostly acquired by the British Museum after his death. In fact, Harris, while still alive, placed his collection on indefinite loan in the British Museum. The British Museum has 708 objects formerly in his collection, including 22 prints he made himself, and in 1981 published ''Goya's Prints, The Tomás Harris Collection in the British Museum'', edited by Juliet Wilson Bareau.

He had five siblings, including Enriqueta Harris (1910—2006), an art historian specialising in Spanish art, and four others: William, Morris, Violeta, and Conchita. Provided by Wikipedia