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Forbes, Stanhope Alexander (1857-1947)

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Name
Forbes, Stanhope Alexander (1857-1947)
Nationality
English
Biography
(1857-1947)<br />Forbes is regarded as the founding father of the Newlyn School. His paintings of Cornish fishing life convey the different aspects of the local industry: the toil, the equilibrium which derives from long-established ways of life and the extreme beauty of this environment.<br /><br />Forbes studied at the Lambeth School of Art (1874-76) and at the Royal Academy Schools (1876-78) but it was during a two-year period in Paris that he discovered the rustic realism of Jean Francois Millet and Jules Bastien-Lepage.<br /><br />Forbes’ most famous paintings are resonant with the sights and sounds of the sea. His skill with the human figure is undoubted: portraits such as those of his mother or the anonymous sage in At the Quayside, portray figures which seem hewn out of the paint – physical presences looming out of the canvas. Stanhope Forbes’ paintings draw the viewer into their midst. Even his more gruelling images possess a charm which is due to their serenity rather than excessive sentiment.<br />
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Assets (115 in total)

The Lighthouse of Newlyn, Cornwall, 1893 (oil on canvas)
The Terminus, Penzance Station, Cornwall, 1925 (oil on canvas)
A Street in Brittany, 1881 (oil on canvas)
Penzance: Railway Station
Off to the Fishing Ground, 1886 (oil on canvas)
The Munition Girls, 1918 (oil on canvas)
Newlyn, 1906 (oil on canvas)
Gala Day at Newlyn, 1907
Young Anglers at Hayle, 1930
The Great Fire of London in 1666, illustration from Hutchinson's 'The Story of the British Nation', c.1920 (colour litho)
The Seine Boat, 1904 (oil on canvas)
The Drinking Place, 1900 (oil on canvas)
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