Stanhope Forbes - Knowledge (XXG)

213: 205: 197: 155: 597: 44: 617:, made in 1907, provides a snapshot of life in a small village in Cornwall. In it a man, covered to protect himself from the rain, leads his horse through the wet streets, which bare the light and reflection from light from inside a house. "With superb skill, the soft light is reflected off the rain-soaked road." A girl is held back from crossing the street by her mother until the man and his horse pass by. 1616: 441: 413:; They were both shown at the Royal Academy in 1884. True to his degree of satisfaction, the Fair Measures painting was well-received and the Market painting was found to be too blue and shadowless. Since blue was the colour of the Breton costumes, Forbes decided that it might be useful to change locations for a broader range of subjects and colours. 632:: " dominant note of his life's message, his sense of sympathetic humanity. These people in their humble little parlour, are real and living. Intolerant of all shams and false sentiment, the painter has made himself one with the people he depicts; he has understood the humour which lies so close to tears." 460:

I had come from France and, wandering down into Cornwall, came one spring morning along that dusty road by which Newlyn is approached from Penzance. Little did I think that the cluster of grey-roofed houses which I saw before me against the hillside would be my home for many years. What lode-some of

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In that most beautiful and interesting portion of France, there seemed to be found everything that an artist could desire. Inhabited by a race of a distinct and marked type, wearing still the beautiful national costumes which had been handed down from bygone ages, and retaining the old language of

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particularly, by a number of young English painters studying there, who just about then, by some common impulse, seemed drawn towards this corner of their native land... There are plenty of names amongst them which are still, and I hope will long by, associated with Newlyn, and the beauty of this

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at Newlyn's St Peter's Church. Their first home was at the "Cliffs Castle" cottage, which overlooked the sea. They had a son named Alexander (usually known as Alec), born 26 May 1893. The couple had a home built for the family in Higher Faughan, Penzance. Elizabeth died in 1912.

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their forefathers, each village followed religiously the old traditions which ordered the fashion of their dress and the conduct of their lives. Here was a country dear to all who love that which is old and quaint, time-honoured, and reminiscent of past ages.

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The West Cornwall Art Archive, Penzance (WCAA) established the Forbes Reading Room in memory of Elizabeth and Stanhope Forbes. It contains books, files and information about art subjects related to the works of the Forbes and their students.

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In 1915, Forbes married friend and previous student Maudie Palmer, who had been "assistant, helper and friend to the whole Forbes family." During the First World War his son Alec served in the

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Having completed his studies in France, Forbes returned to London and showed works he made in Brittany at the 1883 Royal Academy and Royal Hibernian Academy shows. In 1884 he moved to

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area. He also received his first commission for a portrait. Back in London, at the age of 18, he received another commission for a portrait of a doctor's daughter,

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painting, he also made interior scenes and was adept at capturing the "warm and charming" effects of lighting on a room and the people in it, such as

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and was killed on 3 September 1916. He is buried in Guillemont Road Cemetery where his headstone bears an inscription composed by his father:

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Of Forbes's works, Norman Garstin said: "he is a good unsentimental painter, his work has a sense of sincerity that appeals to everyone".

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Ladies at work at the Newlyn Art School under the direction of Mrs Stanhope Forbes, from "Every Woman's Encyclopaedia", 1910

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HE SAW BEYOND THE FILTH OF BATTLE, AND THOUGHT DEATH A FAIR PRICE TO PAY TO BELONG TO THE COMPANY OF THESE FELLOWS

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and Charles E. Hannaford, who had also been a student. In Newlyn, Forbes tutored the landscape watercolourist

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artistic metal the place contains I know not; but its effects were strongly felt in the studios of Paris and

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professor. While there the men shared their appreciation of art and Forbes painted landscapes of the

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with sixteen reproductions from the paintings of Stanhope A. Forbes. Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1909.

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was Forbes' first painting made in Newlyn. The artist colony received national attention with the

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Returned battlefield cross and memorial to his son sculpted by Forbes at Sancreed Parish Church

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fair district, which charmed us from the first, has not lost its power, and holds us still.

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Forbes returned to Ireland for a few months to visit Dr Andrew Melville, family friend and

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Forbes died in Newlyn on 2 March 1947 at the age of 89. He was buried in the churchyard of

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also brought notoriety to Forbes and the artist colony. He was one of the founders of the

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Other artists who were painting in Brittany at the time and who Forbes may have met, were

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Forbes and his wife founded the Newlyn Art School in 1899. It attracted students such as

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Mrs. Lionel Birch states that Forbes and La Thangue went to Cancale, Brittany in 1880.

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The 22nd January 1901: Reading the News of Queen Victoria's Death in a Cornish Cottage

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Second Lieutenant Alec Forbes (1893–1916) Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

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in Liverpool. During an 1883 trip to Brittany, Forbes stayed at Quimperlé. His

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The Violinist (Walter Barnes, Conductor of the Penzance Orchestral Society)

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Bristol: Sansom, in association with Penlee House Museum, Penzance, 2007.

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