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| Stanhope Forbes in 1934 © National Portrait Gallery, London |
Stanhope Alexander Forbes is regarded as the founder and leader of the Newlyn School. He settled in Newlyn in 1884 and stayed for the rest of his life. Norman Garstin, in an article on Stanhope Forbes, wrote that ‘no one has done so much to hold the little community of Newlyn together as Mr. Stanhope Forbes’.
Forbes was born in Dublin. His father was the manager of the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland; his mother was French and had much influence over his life. Stanhope was sent to Dulwich College and in 1876 to the Royal Academy Schools. In 1880 he visited Paris and attended Bonnat’s studio and, in 1881, he visited Brittany where he was to paint extensively over the next few years in the ‘plein air’ style. Forbes was greatly influenced by the work of the French artist, Bastien Lepage, and his earlier works display the solid, tonal values of pre-impressionist painting.In January 1884, Forbes took the train from London to Falmouth in search of fresh inspiration and gradually found his way to Newlyn.
He was by no means the first artist to settle there; Langley, Gotch and Todd were already well established. It was, however, largely the repeated success of Forbes’ work at the Royal Academy in the later 1880s, and, in particular his most successful painting “Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach” (1885), that established the reputation of the Newlyn School outside Cornwall.
In 1899, he founded a painting school in Newlyn with Elizabeth Forbes, his wife, ‘for the student who wishes to learn how seriously to study painting and drawing according to the recent development in English art’. The school’s formation marked the beginning of a new era in the artistic life of Newlyn while its students formed the nucleus of the second generation of Newlyn painters.Works can be found at The Tate, London; Penlee House Gallery and Museum, Penzance and at the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro.
For more information on Stanhope Forbes see part 1, and for earlier works see parts 1 & 2 also.
This is part 3 of a 4-part series on the works of Stanhope Forbes:
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| 1921 Feeding the Pigs oil on canvas 140 x 99 cm University of Exeter, UK |
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| 1921 Market Place oil on canvas 91 x 73 cm Penlee House Gallery Museum, Penzance, Cornwall, UK |
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| 1921 Nightshift on the Embankment oil on canvas 70 x 88 cm |
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| 1921 The Inner Harbour – Abbey Slip oil on canvas 76.2 x 101.6 cm Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance, Cornwall, UK |
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| 1921 The Inner Harbour – Abbey Slip contemporary view |
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| 1921 The Short Cut across the Fields oil on canvas 77.4 x 127 cm Private Collection |
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| 1922 On Paul Hill oil on canvas 89 x 119 cm Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance, Cornwall, UK |
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| 1922 The Old Weighing House, Penzance oil on canvas 61 x 76 cm |
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| 1923 Figures in an Italian Courtyard, outside the Studio of Luigi Tolomeo oil on canvas 56 x 67 cm |
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| 1923 Florist and Fruiterer oil on canvas 51 x 61 cm |
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| 1923 Percy Sharman oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm The University of Reading, Berkshire, UK |
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| 1923 Portrait of a Gentleman in Italian Military Uniform oil on canvas 48.3 x 30.7 cm |
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| 1923 The Fishermen's Expedition oil on canvas 61 x 77.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1924 LMS Railway Poster "The Permanent Way - Relaying" |
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| 1924 Penzance from Newlyn oil on canvas 31 x 46 cm |
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| 1924 The Sidings oil on canvas 46 x 61 cm |
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| 1925 On the Bridge oil on canvas 61 x 76 cm Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, UK |
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| 1925 Street Corner, Cahors (France) oil on canvas 61 x 50.8 cm Private Collection |
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| 1925 The Terminus, Penzance Station, Cornwall oil on canvas 111 x 137 cm National Railway Museum, York, UK |
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| 1926 The Young Pianist oil on canvasboard 44 x 32.5 cm |
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| 1927 The Old Bridge of Relebbus oil on canvas 61 x 76 cm Private Collection |
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| 1927 Through the Marshes oil on canvas 64.8 x 74.8 cm National Railway Museum, York, UK |
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| 1928-30 Relubbus Bridge oil on canvas 51 x 76 cm Penlee House Gallery Museum, Penzance, Cornwall, UK |
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| 1929 Mr Spargo and Jack the Horse study |
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| 1929 Relubbus Bridge oil on canvas 60.5 x 75cm Penlee House Gallery Museum, Penzance, Cornwall, UK |
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| 1930 The Artist's Garden oil on canvas 21 x 28 cm |
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| 1930 Young Anglers at Hayle oil on canvas 50 x 62 cm |
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| 1931 A Country Lane (Woodgatherers) oil on canvas 77 x 61 cm |
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| 1933 Portrait of an Artist, William Pascoe oil on canvas 61.3 x 51.5 cm Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK |
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| 1935 An Old Cornish Manor oil on canvas 61.5 x 76.8 cm |
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| 1935 The End of the Day's Work oil on canvas 62 x 76.5 cm |
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| 1937 Evening on the Bridge oil on canvas 61 x 76 cm Private Collection |
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| 1937 Fading Leaf and Fallen Tree oil on canvas 60 x 74 cm Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK |
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| 1937 Farmyard oil on canvas 76.5 x 61 cm Manchester Art Gallery, UK |
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| 1937 The White Gate oil on canvas 51.1 x 64 cm |
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| 1937 The Woolpack at Yalding oil on canvas 55.7 x 76.3 cm |
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| The Woolpack at Yalding contemporary view |
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| 1938 Village Rendezvous, Copperhouse Creek, near Hayle oil on canvas 62 x 78 cm The Box, Plymouth Museums Galleries Archive, UK |
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| 1939 An Old Quarter of Penzance oil on canvas 51.2 x 64 cm |
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| 1939 The Pigeon Loft oil on canvas 60 x 76 cm |
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| c1939 The Fountain Tavern oil on canvas 35.6 x 47 cm |
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| 1940 The Potting Shed oil on canvas 64 x 51 cm |
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| 1943 Causewayhead, Penzance oil on canvas 77 x 61 cm |
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| Causewayhead, Penzance contemporary view |
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| 1944 James Jewill Hill oil on canvas 91 x 71.5 cm Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance, Cornwall, UK |
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| 1944 Off to Lunch details not found |
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| n.d. A Dutch River in Summer oil on panel 20 x 29.5 cm |
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| n.d. A Cornish Farm oil on canvas 76.2 x 61 cm |
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| n.d. Boy on a Beach oil on panel 24.1 x 15.3 cm |
