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| Stanhope Forbes © 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 earlier works and more biographical notes see part 1 also.
This is part 2 of a 4-part series on the works of Stanhope Forbes:
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| 1901 The 22 January 1901 ( Reading the News of the Queen’s Death in a Cornish Cottage ) oil on canvas 96.4 x 124 cm Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Devon, UK |
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| 1901 Trewarveneth Street , Street Scene oil on canvas 48 x 38 cm Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester, UK |
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| 1902 Chadding on Mount's Bay oil on canvas 98.5 x 153.5 cm Worcester City Museum and Art Gallery, UK |
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| 1902 Lighting up time oil on canvas 114.9 x 175.9 cm |
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| c1902 Study for the Carter in "Lighting Up Time" oil on canvas 74 x 60 cm Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, UK |
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| 1903 Lighting Up oil on canvas 62.2 x 52 cm |
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| 1903 Picking Chrysanthemums oil on canvas 61.9 x 50.8 cm |
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| 1903 Quay Street, Penzance oil on canvas 76 x 61 cm |
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| 1903 Round the Camp Fire oil on canvas 76.2 x 92.2 cm Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK |
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| 1903 William Henry, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe oil on canvas 125 x 99.5 cm Mount Edgcumbe House, Torpoint, Cornwall, UK |
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| 1904 Evening,Worker's Return oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm Hartlepool Museums and Heritage Service, UK |
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| 1904 James Jewill Hill oil on canvas 91 x 71.5 cm Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance, Cornwall, UK |
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| 1904 The Rowing Boat oil on canvas 51 x 61 cm |
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| 1904 The Seine Boat oil on canvas 114.5 x 157.5 cm |
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| 1905 Home-Along study oil on canvas 86 x 71 cm |
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| 1905 Home-Along: Evening oil on canvas 120.6 x 180.9 cm Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, UK |
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| 1906 At their Moorings oil on cardboard 103 x 159.5 cm Ferens Art Galley, Hull, UK |
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| 1906 Newlyn, Cornwall oil on canvas 123 x 97 cm Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston upon Hull, UK |
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| 1907 Gala Day at Newlyn, Cornwall oil on canvas 106 x 136 cm Hartlepool Museums and Heritage Service, UK |
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| 1907 Gossips oil on canvas 92 x 77 cm |
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| 1907 Snared oil on canvas 102 128 cm Private Collection |
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| 1907 The Quayside, Newlyn oil on canvas 92 x 72.5 cm |
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| 1909 A Safe Anchorage oil on canvas 117.5 x 153 cm |
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| 1909 Sunshine and Shadow: The Village Shop above Newlyn Harbour oil on canvas 61 x 81 cm |
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| 1910 Mousehole Harbour, Cornwall oil on canvas 35.5 x 45.8 cm Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries, Sussex, UK |
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| 1910 Mrs Forbes ( the artist's mother ) oil on canvas 109 x 94 cm Penlee House Gallery Museum, Penzance, Cornwall, UK |
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| 1910 The Harbour Window oil on canvas 112.5 x 86.7 cm Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| 1911 The Fleet in Sight study oil on canvas 61.5 x 51.5 cm |
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| 1911 The Harbour at Mousehole oil on canvas 61 x 51 cm |
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| 1911 The Old Pier Steps oil on canvas 131.5 x 106.5 cm Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, Yorkshire, UK |
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| 1911 The Fleet in Sight study (details not found) |
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| before 1912 Elizabeth Adela Forbes (1859–1912) oil on canvas 33.5 x 27 cm Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance, Cornwall, UK |
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| 1913 A Street in Seville oil on canvas 36 x 26 cm |
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| 1913 Penolva ( A view of the lane to Penolva, near Mousehole ) oil on canvas 119.5 x 152.5 cm Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance, Cornwall, UK |
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| 1913 Study of Violin and Bow oil on board 13.8 x 19 cm Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries, Sussex, UK |
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| 1914 The Cottage - Woman gathering Sticks before a Cornish Cottage oil on canvas 49.5 x 59.7 cm |
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| 1914 Through the Looking Glass oil on canvas 78 x 63 cm |
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| 1915 Amongst the Pines oil on canvas 111.8 x 137.2 cm |
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| 1915 Sheffield, River and Smoking Chimneys oil on canvas 58.3 x 48.3 cm Museums Sheffied, UK |
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| 1915 Three Generations oil on canvas 71 x 91.5 cm |
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| c1915cA Family Picnic oil on canvas 76.8 x 101.6 cm |
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| 1916 Mount Bay, Cornwall, Feeding the Chickens oil on canvas 59 x 75 cm |
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| 1916 Second Lieutenant Alec Forbes (d.1916), Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm Cornwall's Regimental Museum, Bodmin, UK |
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| 1916 The Forge oil on canvas 76 x 61 cm |
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| 1917 The Smith's Workshop oil on canvas 153.3 x 118 cm |
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| 1917 Going to School, Paul, near Penzance oil on canvas 51 x 61 cm |
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| 1917 Portrait of Lieutenant Joseph Tronche (10 Regiment d'artillerie/1917) oil on canvas 74.3 x 54 cm |
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| 1917 The Huckster oil on canvas 61 x 76 cm |
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| 1918 The Munition Girls, 1918 oil on canvas 103 x 127 cm Science Museum, London |
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| 1918 Women's Royal Naval Service Ratings Sail-Making: Onboard HMS 'Essex' at Devonport oil on canvas 106.6 x 137.1 cm Imperial War Museum, London |
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| 1919 Fitting Out, Mousehole Harbour oil on canvas 102 x 129 cm Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, Yorkshire, UK |
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| 1919 Low Tide at Mousehole oil on canvas 61 x 76 cm |
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| 1919 Mousehole, near Newlyn oil on canvas 60.9 x 76.2 cm Private Collection |
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| 1919 The New Mount watercolour over pencil 45.5 x 59.5 cm |
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