Sunday, January 20, 2019

The Newlyn School.

I am supposed to know a bit about famous paintings so it is much to my shame that I have neglected to learn a great deal about The Newlyn School.
Started around 1884 in Cornwall because of the excellence of the local light conditions, it contained at least a dozen artists of quality, notably Stanhope Forbes and Walter Langley - see samples below, first by Forbes and the second by Langley:

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