Newlyn and Staithes School of Painters

Finishing this blog

2011-12-01T06:00:00.000Z

Thank you to all who have followed and enjoyed this blog but my health is too poor now to be able to maintain it. My main blogs such as

http://goldenagepaintings.blogspot.com/

will continue but I must cut back on what I can do - though I still love sharing some lovely images.

Borlase Smart - St Ives Carbis Bay & Lelant, Lands End, Railway Travel Poster by GWR (Great Western Railway)

2011-11-29T06:00:00.000Z

Harold C. Harvey - The Kitchen Dresser

2011-11-28T06:00:00.000Z

Stanhope Alexander Forbes - Street Harmony

2011-11-27T06:00:00.000Z

Gillian Furlong - Sunday Morning - Newlyn, 1998

2011-11-26T06:00:00.000Z

Geoffrey Sneyd Garnier - Lamorna Cove

2011-11-25T06:00:00.000Z

http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/artists/geoffrey-sneyd-garnier.html

Edwin Harris - A Pinch of Snuff

2011-11-24T06:00:00.000Z

Edwin Harris - Young Woman in a Bonnet

2011-11-23T06:00:00.000Z

http://www.messums.com/work.php?medium=paintings&id=7893&prevpage=7&project=

Elizabeth Adela Stanhope Forbes - Attentive Companion

2011-11-22T06:00:00.000Z

Elizabeth Adela Stanhope Forbes - Fairy Stories

2011-11-21T06:00:00.000Z

Henry Scott Tuke 1858-1929 Falmouth Cornwall Newlyn school of art Falmouth Cornwall UK 1 of 2

2011-11-20T06:00:00.000Z

Thomas Cooper Gotch

2011-11-19T06:00:00.000Z

http://www.projectkettering.org.uk/page_id__81_path__0p3p20p.aspx

Paintings of Elizabeth Forbes

2011-11-18T06:00:00.002Z

Barclay James Harvest (hymn) with images of staithes

2011-11-18T06:00:00.001Z

Women War Artists

2011-11-18T06:00:00.000Z

Laura Knight - Take Off: Interior of a Bomber Aircraft c.1943

2011-11-17T06:00:00.000Z

Plymouth Artist Thais Lenkiewicz Pipe Studio New Street 8th Nov 2011

2011-11-16T17:00:00.000Z

Maurice Frederick Codner - Sir Alfred Munnings

2011-11-16T06:00:00.000Z

Walter Langley - Evening at Coverack, Cornwall 1895

2011-11-15T06:00:00.000Z

Alfred James Munning - Gala Day

2011-11-14T06:00:00.000Z

Newlyn Art Gallery

2011-11-13T06:00:00.000Z

http://www.penwith.co.uk/newlyn/new10.htm

Alfred James Munning - A Gypsy Camp With Horses And Hens

2011-11-12T06:00:00.000Z

Thomas Cooper Gotch - The Lantern Parade

2011-11-11T06:00:00.001Z

oil on canvas
about 1918

a Cornwall celebration

Thomas Cooper Gotch - A study of female figures, one holding a lily

2011-11-10T06:00:00.000Z

Thomas Cooper Gotch - High Veldt, South Africa

2011-11-09T06:00:00.000Z

oil on canvas
c. 1910-12
11 3/4 x 19.5"

Gotch visited South Africa in 1913.
I would have thought he painted this later?

Stanhope Alexander Forbes - Against Regatta Day

2011-11-08T06:00:00.000Z

Alfred James Munning - Exmoor with Gorse

2011-11-07T06:00:00.000Z

Charles Baxter Nurse - Alfred Munnings 1898

2011-11-06T06:00:00.000Z

Laura Knight - Lunch at the Café Royal, London

2011-11-05T13:00:00.000Z

Price Realized
£13,750

signed 'Laura Knight' (lower right)
pencil, black and sanguine chalk with green wash, on paper
22½ x 15½ in. (57.2 x 39.4 cm.)

Drawn from a sketch dated 1916, the present drawing depicts one of Laura's favourite meeting places, the Café Royale on Regent Street, London, where she went to meet her friends and acquaintances in the art world and also from the literary, theatre and ballet fraternities.
In the 1890s the Café Royale was said to have the greatest wine cellar in the world and was considered to be the best place to see and be seen. Famous patrons included Oscar Wilde, Virginia Wolfe, Brigitte Bardot, George Bernard Shaw and more recently Diana, Princess of Wales.
The present drawing will be included in the Catalogue Raisonné currently being compiled by Dame Laura Knight's great-nephew R. John Croft, F.C.A.

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/dame-laura-knight-dbe-ra-rws-lunch/5396442/lot/lot_details.aspx?pos=7&intObjectID=5396442&sid=&page=8

Laura Knight - Girl with a kitten

2011-11-04T13:00:00.002Z

Price Realized
£8,750

indistinctly inscribed 'Girl with Kitten/... Laura Knight' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
12½ x 9¼ in. (31.8 x 23.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1903

C. Fox, Dame Laura Knight, Oxford, 1988, pl. 6.

An early work by the artist showing the influence of trips to the artists colony in Laren, Holland, where she has used thick paint. The model is from Staithes, where Laura Knight lived from 1897-1908. Knight employed the children of local miners as models, and recalled in her autobiography how the fees she paid them helped the families make ends meet.

We are grateful to R. John Croft, the artist's great nephew, for his help in preparing this catalogue entry. The picture will be featured in his forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work. Please see www.damelauraknight.com for more information.

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/dame-laura-knight-dbe-ra-rws-girl/5396441/lot/lot_details.aspx?pos=6&intObjectID=5396441&sid=&page=8

Alfred James Munnings - Shrimp and six ponies on the Ringland Hills

2011-11-04T13:00:00.000Z

Price Realized
£313,250

signed 'A J Munnings' (lower left)
oil on canvas
19½ x 25¾ in. (49.5 x 65.4 cm.)

Shrimp and Six Ponies on the Ringland Hills is an important early work by the artist, with unbroken provenance from an early patron. It depicts the artist's favourite gypsy model Shrimp on a white Welsh mare, 'with long, curly mane and tail and Arab-looking countenance' (A. J. Munnings An Artist's Life, Bungay, 1950, p,213).

In the summers of 1910 and 1911 Munnings went on extended painting expeditions from his home at Swainsthorpe to the nearby Ringland Hills, making his headquarters at The Falcon Inn at Costessey. 'Ringland and Costessey, on the west side of Norwich are situated in one of the loveliest districts of all the pleasant country surrounding that old city. Although only six to eight miles away, with little perceptible variation, their serenity was unbroken, their peace continuous and unalloyed, the inhabitants living on in the same unaltered ways of life, toiling and resting, their quietude as yet undisturbed by motor horn or sound of tractor' (op. cit., p. 208).

The view from the ridge of the hills across the Wensum valley towards the distant wooded parklands of Taverham Hall was breathtaking. It provided an impressive backdrop to a series of paintings including the present work and also On the Ringland Hills (The Bunting Collection of Works by Sir Alfred Munnings, Christie's London, 12 June 2002, lot 4, £666,250). Munnings wrote, 'I was working in a sort of gravelly hollow. The white ponies stood up against the sky in sunlight, with the distant blue Taverham country across the valley showing beneath their bellies. A splendid subject! I revelled in painting on that sandy brow. What occasional passers-by thought of us from below never struck me. Nobody cared and I was at peace' (op. cit., pp. 217-18).

Shrimp and Six Ponies on the Ringland Hills formed the central motif for The Coming Storm (Royal Academy 1925, where purchased by the National Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) where Shrimp is superimposed on a romantic background of a tented fairground against a dark and brooding sky.

We are grateful to Lorian Peralta Ramos for her help in preparing this catalogue entry. The picture will be included in her forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné of the work of Sir Alfred Munnings.

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/sir-alfred-james-munnings-pra-rws-shrimp/5396438/lot/lot_details.aspx?pos=5&intObjectID=5396438&sid=&page=8

Stanhope Alexander Forbes - Hide And Seek

2011-11-04T06:00:00.000Z

Samuel John Lamorna Birch - Summer Evening, The Still Pool, Deveron, near Rothiemay

2011-11-03T06:00:00.000Z

Price Realized
£11,875

signed 'S. J. Lamorna Birch' (lower left) and inscribed 'The Still Pool Deveron/Summer Evening' (on the reverse)
oil on board
16 x 13 in. (40.6 x 33 cm.)

Lamorna Birch was a keen angler; he frequently dammed the streams of the Lamorna Valley for fishing, and for holidays frequented the Spey in Inverness, or the Deveron, in Aberdeenshire, depicted here near Rothiemay.

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/samuel-john-lamorna-birch-ra-rws-summer/5396428/lot/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=8&intObjectID=5396428&sid=e107da45-4c75-42f8-9c76-d62ad90fe2bd&page=7

Ernest Procter; Doris Margaret ('Dod') Procter (née Shaw)

2011-11-02T06:00:00.000Z

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitLarge/mw16617/Ernest-Procter-Doris-Margaret-Dod-Procter-ne-Shaw

Richard Strauss - Frühlingsgedränge ('Spring Voices')

2011-11-01T06:00:00.000Z

Henry Scott Tuke - A boy with an oar

2011-10-31T06:00:00.000Z

Price Realized
£61,250

signed and dated 'H. S. Tuke 1910' (lower right)
oil on panel
14 1/8 x 10 1/8 in. (36.1 x 26 cm.)
http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/henry-scott-tuke-a-boy-with-an/5396391/lot/lot_details.aspx?pos=1&intObjectID=5396391&sid=&page=5

Harold C. Harvey - Fishing By A Forest Stream

2011-10-30T06:00:00.000Z

Harold C. Harvey - Boys Bathing

2011-10-29T06:00:00.000+01:00

Henry Herbert La Thangue - Polly

2011-10-28T17:53:00.003+01:00

bears a later signature 'H.H.LA THANGUE' (lower left), inscribed 'POLLY/HH La Thangue ARA' on an old label attached to the reverse of the frame
oil on canvas
28.5 x 23.5cm (11 1/4 x 9 1/4in).

Sold for £48,000 inclusive of Buyer's Premium

The discovery of Polly, a study related to The Return of the Reapers circa 1885-6 sheds new light on the early years of Henry Herbert La Thangue. It also appears to be a further study of the girl in A Portrait, La Thangue's hitherto unidentified model. Buildings in the background of Polly and A Portrait, coupled with the downland landscape background of The Return of the Reapers suggest that all three were painted on the south coast, perhaps in the vicinity of Rye where La Thangue lived for a brief period in 1885.1 He had moved to Horsey Mere in the Norfolk Fens by the summer of 1886 and remained there until 1890.2 Its survival is the more remarkable because the artist frequently discarded his early work and examples of this type are exceedingly rare.

During these years La Thangue produced head studies of farm hands, fisherfolk and Broadsmen, and although a number of these have survived, his practice of exhibiting them under anonymous titles such as A Study or A Portrait, makes it difficult to place them in a reliable sequence.3 This is not the case with the present example since it so clearly anticipates the Tate Britain canvas, a work originally purchased by Abraham Mitchell, the Bradford mill owner and passed to his son, Herbert.4

The years in which these works were painted were eventful for La Thangue. In 1885 he married the actress, Kate Rietiker and became absorbed in art politics. His radicalism came to the fore in discussions amongst the founders of the New English Art Club concerning reform of the Royal Academy. La Thangue proposed a 'democratic' society open to all and based on the principles of 'universal suffrage' – ie elected selection and hanging committees. Hotly debated in the Wentworth Studios in Manresa Road, Chelsea, where he had a toehold, (see lot xxx), these plans generated letters and articles in the press, but were ultimately regarded as impractical.5

At the same time La Thangue was the highly influential leader of what was known as 'the Square Brush School', succinctly described by Morley Roberts in 1889 as,

'... a technical method which puts paint on canvas in a particular way with a square brush, which many older men never use. Those who practice it in its simplest form leave brush-marks, and do not smooth away the evidence of method, thus sometimes insisting on the way a picture is painted, perhaps at the sacrifice of subtleties in the subject.'6

What we find in Polly is a perfect example of this method, ultimately derived from the teaching ateliers of Paris and popularly associated with the work of Jules Bastien-Lepage. La Thangue would paint across the form in choppy strokes – there was no scumbling or glazing over unsatisfactory passages, and brush marks were left for all to see. His normal practice at this time would be to paint on a loose canvas tacked down on a board, then stretch the canvas later. The long 'T' in 'Thangue' indicates that it is the artist's own signature, but added at a later date than the execution of the work. Although much derided by critics of the nineties such as George Moore and DS MacColl, the artists of La Thangue's generation broke the mould and, standing in the open air painting a young reaper, hedger or wood-cutter, was at once more honest than posing a model in costume in a London studio. As evidence of an encounter with a hitherto unknown English peasant girl, Polly not only confirms the freethinking of its creator, it takes to a moment of high idealism in British painting when old ideas about picture making were swept away.
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1 When he returned to England in 1884, La Thangue first lived at South Walsham on the edge of the Norfolk Broads before moving to Rye. See James Stanley Little, 'HH La Thangue', The Art Journal, 1893, p. 171; Kenneth McConkey, A Painter's Harvest, 1978, (exhibition catalogue, Oldham Art Gallery), pp. 9-10; Adrian Jenkins, Painters and Peasants, Henry La Thangue and British Rural Naturalism, 1880-1905, 2000 (exhibition catalogue, Bolton Museum and Art Gallery), p. 84.
2 During these years La Thangue commuted regularly to Bradford for portrait commissions and to attend meetings of the Arcadian Art Club, of which he was President.
3 Adding to the problem, a number of these are unsigned; examples include The Head of a Girl, (National Trust, Standen, c. 1978); A Girl Reading, (formerly Pyms Gallery, London) and A Boy's Head, (sold Sotheby's c. 1995). For this reason it is suggested that the signature on the present example may be a later addition.
4 Christine Hopper and Adrian Jenkins, The Connoisseur, Art Patrons and Collectors in Victorian Bradford, 1989, (Bradford Art Galleries and Museums), n.p. suggest that The Return of the Reapers was exhibited at the Arcadian Art Club in 1888, entitled Haytime. For further reference to the Tate Britain picture, formerly the Fine Art Society and then in the collection of Arthur Grogan Esq., see McConkey 1978, p. 21.
5 See for instance, HH La Thangue 'A National Art Exhibition', The Magazine of Art, 1887, pp. 30-2; HH La Thangue 'Politics in Art', The Artist, 1 April 1889, p. 97; also WJ Laidlay, The Origin and First Two Years of the New English Art Club, 1907 (John Lane). For a modern and less partial account see Kenneth McConkey, The New English, A History of the New English Art Club, 2006, (Royal Academy Publications), pp. 32-7.
6 Morley Roberts, 'A Colony of Artists', The Scottish Art Review, vol 2, August 1889, p. 73.

Stanhope Alexander Forbes - Evening on the bridge

2011-10-28T17:37:00.001+01:00

signed and dated 'Stanhope A.Forbes/1937.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
61 x 76cm (24 x 29 15/16in).

Sold for £27,600 inclusive of Buyer's Premium

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Henry Scott Tuke

2011-10-28T17:21:00.003+01:00

Beach Study
signed 'H.S.TUKE' (in pencil lower left), inscribed on a label attached to the reverse
oil on panel
40 x 32cm (15 3/4 x 12 5/8in).

Sold for £30,000 inclusive of Buyer's Premium

EXHIBITED:
London, Royal Academy, 1928, no. 506

This is one of the last paintings Tuke did before he died in March 1929, of the semi-clad male figure by the sea leaning on the rocks, bathed in Cornish sunlight. It features one of his most loyal and longstanding models in Tuke's later years, Charlie Mitchell (1885 – 1957). It shows the long lean back of the model, which had been honed by years of rowing boats around Falmouth harbour, which Tuke painted many times. The style and manner of the painting is Tuke at his most expressionistic and bold.

The reflected light of the water and sky are painted in strong blue brush marks on the rocks in the foreground, it is echoed in paler shades of blue and white on the models back and the sea and sky beyond, with a hint of sails on the horizon, are a shimmering, sparkling mirage of heat and light.

The work has strong echoes of an earlier painting called The Lighthouse, 1919 (R951) of Mitchell in similar pose, painted on his return from serving in the forces during the First World War. But in this work of 9 years later, Tuke has seen the model's back, the rock, sea and sky as one. The outline of the model's head is all that gives it solidity and a sense of form. It was a feature of Tuke's style of painting that prevented him from being an entirely pure impressionist painter, and yet this painting shows Tuke's confidence and mastery of painting light.

By 1928, Tuke's work was no longer in fashion, his bathing boys paintings had become the subject of cartoons in the popular press due to the repetitive nature of his subject matter. It seems ironic that his other painting of bathing men, to be shown at the Royal Academy in 1928, the last listed in his register of paintings in oil, was suitably called The Critics (R1231), illustrated Catherine Wallace, Catching the Light: The Art and Life of Henry Scott Tuke, p.148.

We are grateful to Catherine Wallace for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.

http://www.bonhams.com/eur/auction/18883/lot/171/

Back of a boy bather
inscribed by artist and dated 'To C. B. G./from H. S. T. Dec 1890' (lower right)
oil on canvas board
25 x 18cm (9 13/16 x 7 1/16in).

Sold for £25,200 inclusive of Buyer's Premium

Footnote:
PROVENANCE:
with The Fine Art Society Ltd., London, 1971
Private collection, UK

This very sensitive portrayal of a young shirtless boy sitting by the water's edge is a relatively early figure painting by Tuke who was to make the study of youth and the nude outdoors his main oeuvre as an artist for the next 38 years.
The painting, although unfinished, demonstrates the delicate, soft handling of oils that Tuke achieved in order to capture the subtleties of tender flesh and form in the boy's head, back and arms.

Tuke began painting the nude outdoors as a professional artist in 1886, when he had just moved to Falmouth in Cornwall. He originally used a model from London, Walter Shilling, for his early nudes but this appears to be one of the local Cornish boys who lived in Falmouth. It has a resemblance to the head of the main standing figure in his first painting where he used only local models called Bathers 1888–89 (R114) which is in Leeds City Art Gallery's collection (illustrated on p.51 Catching the Light by Catherine Wallace). The main models for this painting were Albert Pidwell (1877–1936) and Willy or Bill Rolling, born c.1868, the brother of Tuke's most frequently used model at this time, Jack Rolling, born c.1870. Albert Pidwell would have been 13 years old in 1890 which looks like the age of this model. Will Rolling would have been 20. It could be, therefore that the model in this painting is Albert Pidwell.

Probably painted in one of the summers between 1888 and 1890, this work was a Christmas present to the artist Caroline Burland Gotch in the December of 1890.
Caroline Burland Gotch née Yates (1854–1945) was a friend and fellow student of art with Tuke at the Slade when he studied there between 1875 -1879. She married his other close friend from Slade student days Thomas Cooper Gotch (1854-1931) in 1881 and they lived in Newlyn at this time.

The Gotches, as well as being great friends with Tuke, were also close to another Falmouth based painter William Ayerst Ingram (1855–1913) and according to Pam Lomax, the Gotches spent the Christmas of 1890 in Falmouth at the same lodgings as William Ayerst Ingram1, hence Tuke could have presented the painting to Caroline whilst she was staying in Falmouth with her husband and only child Phyllis.

1 Pam Lomax, The Golden Dream, A biography of Thomas Cooper Gotch, Bristol, 2004, p.95

We are grateful to Catherine Wallace for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.

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Elizabeth Adela Stanhope Forbes - Off to School

2011-10-27T12:43:00.003+01:00

signed l.l.: EFORBES
oil on panel
33 by 26cm., 13 by 10in.

ESTIMATE 15,000-20,000 GBP

Judith Cook and Melissa Hardie, Singing from the Walls, The Life and Art of Elizabeth Forbes, 2000, p.165, 186, illustrated. p.164, cat.no.4.190

Frank Gascoigne Heath - Whiffing about 1907

2011-10-22T06:00:00.000+01:00

Harold Knight - The Council

2011-10-21T06:00:00.000+01:00

(By courtesy of the Fine Art Society and Curtis Brown)
A group of regulars enjoying a drink at the Lamorna Inn ("The Wink").
On the left is "Lamorna" Birch looking towards the figure of Robert Hughes.
The other 3 figures are from the left Joe Ladner, Robert Matthews
and Nick Jory, the landlord of the Inn.

Harold C. Harvey - The Potato Harvest 1910

2011-10-20T06:00:00.000+01:00

Harold C. Harvey - The Orange Girl 1905

2011-10-19T06:00:00.000+01:00

Different Ways of Seeing - Joan Gillchrest, Bryan Pearce & Fred Yates

2011-10-18T06:00:00.001+01:00

http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/whats-on.html

George Sherwood Hunter - At Prayer

2011-10-17T09:27:00.001+01:00

http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/artists/george-sherwood-hunter.html

Laura Knight - A Dressing Room at Drury Lane c. 1952

2011-10-14T06:00:00.000+01:00

Laura Knight - Idylls of the King (Balin and Balan, ii) c. 1901

2011-10-13T06:00:00.000+01:00

Laura Knight - Storm over our town, Malvern

2011-10-12T06:00:00.000+01:00

signed 'Laura Knight' (lower right)
oil on canvas
30¼ x 40 in.

Price Realized £49,250

Laura Knight photo

2011-10-11T06:00:00.000+01:00

http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters/artist/artist.html?IXartist=Laura+Knight

Laura Knight - The Nuremberg Trial 1946

2011-10-10T06:00:00.000+01:00

Laura Knight - Corporal J. M. Robins, Women's Auxiliary Air Force 1941

2011-10-09T10:01:00.002+01:00

Books on Artists in St Ives and Lamorna

2011-10-08T11:13:00.002+01:00

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Thomas Cooper Gotch - Mrs Fielden (d.1957), Violinist 1912

2011-10-07T11:51:00.001+01:00

Henry Scott Tuke - Samuel Under A Tree, Jamaica

2011-10-06T17:29:00.001+01:00

Henry Scott Tuke - Johnny Jackett

2011-10-06T17:28:00.001+01:00

Glyn Martin - Newlyn

2011-10-06T17:26:00.001+01:00

Caroline Graham - Lanching the Lifeboat

2011-10-03T15:59:00.001+01:00

http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/artists/caroline-graham.html

William Ayerst Ingram - Ship of the Line under Tow (HMS 'Ganges'?)

2011-10-02T17:03:00.001+01:00

Harold C. Harvey - The Tea Table 1920

2011-09-17T06:00:00.000+01:00

Harold C. Harvey - Apples 1912

2011-09-16T06:00:00.000+01:00

Harold C. Harvey - The Leisure Hour - Portrait of the Artist's wife, Gertrude, reading [Sale]

2011-09-15T06:00:00.000+01:00

http://www.richard-green.com/Harold-Harvey-The-Leisure-Hour-Portrait-the-Artist-wife-Gertrude-reading-DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=6&tabindex=5&objectid=341656&categoryid=9733

Elizabeth Adela Stanhope Forbes - A Newlyn Maid

2011-09-14T06:00:00.000+01:00

Elizabeth Adela Stanhope Forbes - The Forge

2011-09-13T06:00:00.000+01:00

10 x 12"

Stanhope Alexander Forbes - Fitting out, Mousehole Harbour 1919

2011-09-12T06:00:00.000+01:00

Stanhope Alexander Forbes - Against Regatta Day

2011-09-11T06:00:00.000+01:00

Elizabeth Adela Stanhope Forbes - The Bride (Lady Forbes)

2011-09-08T06:00:00.000+01:00

Henry Herbert La Thangue - The Sawing Horse [Sale]

2011-09-07T06:00:00.002+01:00

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Samuel John Lamorna Birch - Sunlit, Lamorna

2011-09-06T06:00:00.000+01:00

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Laura Knight - Mousehole, 1927

2011-09-05T06:00:00.000+01:00

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Stanhope Alexander Forbes - Goodbye - Off to Skibbereen

2011-09-04T06:00:00.002+01:00

1901
66 x 58"
Royal Academy 1901

The old fisherman was Willie Hitchins and who posed for a other pictures for Forbes
Skibbereen were the herring grounds off Ireland

Hurst Balmford - Lamorna Valley, Cornwall [Sale]

2011-09-03T06:00:00.000+01:00

http://www.john-noott.com/paintings/paintings~period~19th-century/artwork/Lamorna-Valley,-Cornwall_2785.php

Primrose Court - Newlyn - 1906

2011-09-02T13:00:00.000+01:00

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Harold Harvey - Out to Sea

2011-09-02T06:00:00.004+01:00

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http://www.haroldharvey.info/

http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/artists/harold-harvey.html

Alfred James Munning - The Friesian Bull 1920 (reworked 1920 - 47)

2011-09-02T06:00:00.003+01:00

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/picture-of-month/displaypicture.asp?venue=7&id=243

Stanhope Alexander Forbes - The Slipway, Newlyn, 1900

2011-09-02T06:00:00.002+01:00

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Alethea Garstin - Little Farm Place

2011-09-02T06:00:00.001+01:00

http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/artists/alethea-garstin.html

Alethea Garstin - Old Ships, Penzance

2011-09-02T06:00:00.000+01:00

Fresh Pilchards - Newlyn - 1906

2011-09-01T13:00:00.000+01:00

Dame Laura Knight - Gathering Seaweed Sennen Cove

2011-09-01T07:00:00.005+01:00

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Harold C. Harvey - The Old Harbour at Dusk, Newlyn, 1911

2011-09-01T07:00:00.004+01:00

http://www.messums.com/work.php?medium=paintings&id=6017&prevpage=1&project=

Frank Bodilly - Mending Father's Nets

2011-09-01T07:00:00.003+01:00

http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/artists/frank-bodilly.html

Stanhope Alexander Forbes - The Picture Book, 1924

2011-09-01T07:00:00.002+01:00

http://www.messums.com/work.php?medium=paintings&id=3149&prevpage=1&project=

Stanhope Alexander Forbes - Through The Looking Glass Circa 1914

2011-09-01T07:00:00.001+01:00

Great biographical article

http://www.articlesandtexticles.co.uk/2006/12/30/painters-i-should-have-known-about-008-stanhope-forbes/

Oh well - if at first ...

2011-09-01T06:00:00.002+01:00

Mixing different periods on the this my main blog seemed like a good idea but is confusing the hell out of me, if no-one else. I've just acquired several hundred new Newlyn/British Impressionist pictures in addition to the pile I already have of Victorian/Edwardian. I guess the first idea I had of making separate blogs makes more sense. It gives viewers a better choice and stops me posting to this blog every few hours.

I will be making a few minor changes in that I will be adding more pictures from new catalogues I've bought that often aren't on the net. Though I'm not in the trade I do regularly check the main dealers and auctions and want to highlight more pictures for sale that others might be interested in. I also want to include posts on artists biographies and technical details. I hope in time to add more detailed separate 'catalogues' on the main artists I personally research.

My health is still pretty awful but since I can't go out much I will try to keep these blogs up as long as I can. Who knows I may get better!

I do welcome comments and will try to help with queries and valuations when I can - but bear in mind I am only an interested amateur. I'm retired now but regret not buying more pictures when I was younger. But I was busy flying all over the world and it didn't seem so important then.

http://goldenagepaintings.blogspot.com/

Newlyn School of Artists - Houses/Studios

2011-08-17T06:00:00.003+01:00

http://www.bernardevans.co.uk/artistReport.php?repId=30

Changes

2011-08-17T06:00:00.002+01:00

I've been doing a lot more work on British art history and its obvious that the inter-relationship of the different artists and schools have made this separate blogs rather meaningless. Therefore these paintings will now be included on my main blog

http://goldenagepaintings.blogspot.com/

which has now been renamed and expanded.

Rare treasures in One and All: Cornish Arts and Crafts Metalwork at the Royal Cornwall Museum

2011-08-16T12:26:00.002+01:00

http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/craft/art362215

Stanhope Alexander Forbes - Ratings Sail-making (1918)

2011-08-16T06:00:00.000+01:00

Stanhope Alexander Forbes - Sheffield, River and Smoking Chimneys 1915

2011-08-15T06:00:00.000+01:00

Stanhope Alexander Forbes - Self Portrait 1890

2011-08-14T06:00:00.000+01:00

Henry Martin - Newlyn Slip

2011-08-13T06:00:00.000+01:00

Christopher Wood - Newlyn 1930

2011-08-12T06:00:00.000+01:00

Stanhope Alexander Forbes - Through the Marshes 1927

2011-08-11T06:00:00.000+01:00

Charles Hodge Mackie - The Japanese Album

2011-08-10T06:00:00.000+01:00

http://www.brockfieldhall.co.uk/The-Japanese-Album.html

Thomas Cooper Gotch - Autumn Mists

2011-08-09T06:00:00.000+01:00

Laura Knight - The Little Beggar 1947

2011-08-08T06:00:00.000+01:00

Harold Knight - St Ives Bay, Cornwall

2011-08-07T06:00:00.000+01:00