1. Stanhope Alexander Forbes was an Irish artist and a founding member of the influential Newlyn school of painters.
20 Facts About Stanhope Forbes
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Stanhope Forbes was often called 'the father of the Newlyn School'.
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Stanhope Forbes had an older brother, Sir William Forbes, who was a railway manager for the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway.
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Stanhope Forbes was married in the summer of 1889 to fellow painter Elizabeth Armstrong at Newlyn's St Peter's Church.
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Stanhope Forbes is buried in Guillemont Road Cemetery where his headstone bears an inscription composed by his father: 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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Stanhope Forbes died in Newlyn on 2 March 1947 at the age of 89.
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Stanhope Forbes was buried in the churchyard of Sancreed Parish Church.
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John Sparkes helped influence William Forbes to recognise his son's artistic talent, Stanhope Forbes then attended Lambeth School of Art.
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Stanhope Forbes returned to Ireland for a few months to visit Dr Andrew Melville, family friend and Queen's College professor.
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Stanhope Forbes then studied at the private atelier of Leon Bonnat in Clichy, Paris from 1880 to 1882.
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Since blue was the colour of the Breton costumes, Stanhope Forbes decided that it might be useful to change locations for a broader range of subjects and colours.
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Stanhope Forbes was one of the founders of the New English Art Club in 1886.
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In 1892 Stanhope Forbes became an Associate of the Royal Academy.
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Stanhope Forbes was the founding chairman and trustee of the Newlyn Art Gallery beginning in 1895.
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Stanhope Forbes's friends included Henry Herbert La Thangue, Blandford Fletcher and Charles E Hannaford, who had been a student.
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In Newlyn, Stanhope Forbes tutored the landscape watercolourist Mabel Mary Spanton.
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Stanhope Forbes became a member of the St Ives Society of Artists in 1928.
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Stanhope Forbes's painting, ' The Quarry Team ' is shown being chosen by the St Ives' gallery's selection committee.
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Stanhope Forbes generally painted genre scenes and landscapes en plein air.
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Stanhope Forbes's works are in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Tate Gallery, Imperial War Museum in London, Penlee House, Royal Academy, Gallery Oldham, Queen Mary's Doll's House at Windsor Castle and in other museums in Britain, Australia and New Zealand.