1. Norman Garstin was an Irish artist, teacher, art critic and journalist associated with the Newlyn School of painters.
15 Facts About Norman Garstin
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Norman Garstin later took students to Europe to some of his favourite places.
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Norman Garstin painted plein air and was influenced by Impressionism, Japanese works and James McNeill Whistler.
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Norman Garstin was a founding member of the Newlyn Art Gallery.
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Norman Garstin was born 28 August 1847 in Caherconlish, County Limerick, Ireland to Captain William Garstin and Mary Moore Garstin.
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Norman Garstin was raised by aunts and grandparents following his father's suicide and his mother's incapacitating disabilities.
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Norman Garstin attended Victoria College on the island of Jersey and then he worked in architecture and engineering for brief periods.
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Norman Garstin then travelled to South Africa where he befriended Cecil Rhodes, worked as a journalist and was involved in government in Cape Town.
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Norman Garstin then travelled and painted his way through Spain, Morocco and Venice, Italy.
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Norman Garstin worked as a painter, teacher, art critic and journalist.
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Norman Garstin was a man of intensely individual impulses and opinions, and incurred unpopularity at times through his views on war and other topics.
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Norman Garstin became a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists and was on the Newlyn Art Gallery's Provisional Committee for its opening in 1895.
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Norman Garstin taught Harold Harvey, the only Cornish Newlyn School painter, and his daughter, Alethea.
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Norman Garstin's work consisted primarily of small oil panels in the plein air style, something he had picked up from the French Impressionists, like Manet.
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Norman Garstin was fascinated by Japanese prints and admired the work of the American painter James McNeill Whistler.