This year we recreated a painting from a well-known Cornish artist. It was an opportunity to focus on a small section and impart one's own interpretation. In so doing the identity of the painting was revealed to be The Pier Head by Stanhope Forbes 1910, oil on canvas, 123.5 x 149.5cm currently in the Geelong Gallery Collection, Australia.
After his early training in London, Stanhope Forbes travelled to France in 1880 where he studied initially at Leon Bonnat’s Paris studio before heading to Brittany where he first began to paint in the open air, a practice he favoured for the remainder of his career.
In 1884, back in Britain, Forbes settled in the picturesque Cornish fishing village of Newlyn near Penzance, and along with his artist wife Elizabeth, became a leading figure in the growing colony of artists there and in nearby St Ives
After his early training in London, Stanhope Forbes travelled to France in 1880 where he studied initially at Leon Bonnat’s Paris studio before heading to Brittany where he first began to paint in the open air, a practice he favoured for the remainder of his career.
In 1884, back in Britain, Forbes settled in the picturesque Cornish fishing village of Newlyn near Penzance, and along with his artist wife Elizabeth, became a leading figure in the growing colony of artists there and in nearby St Ives
The Pier Head by Stanhope Forbes 1910, oil on canvas, 123.5 x 149.5cm
Newlyn provided Forbes and other members of the Newlyn School of impressionist painters with something of the same quality of light they had enjoyed in France and which, along with the unpretentious maritime subjects in their midst, was a constant source of inspiration. The figures seen in paintings by Forbes and his associates were mostly modelled on the local villagers and fishermen.
In 2017 visitors enjoyed participating in recreating a painting by Renoir.
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Luncheon of the Boating Party is by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
(Oil on canvas, dimensions 1.3 m x 1.73 m, created 1880–1881)
It was included in the Seventh Impressionist Exhibition in 1882 and identified as the best painting in the show by three critics. Location now: The Phillips Collection.
(Oil on canvas, dimensions 1.3 m x 1.73 m, created 1880–1881)
It was included in the Seventh Impressionist Exhibition in 1882 and identified as the best painting in the show by three critics. Location now: The Phillips Collection.
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