Children in a Newlyn Street
Stanhope Alexander Forbes, RA (Dublin 1857 - Newlyn 1947)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1885 - 1947
Materials
Oil on millboard
Measurements
286 x 210 mm (11 1/4 x 8 1/4 in)
Place of origin
Newlyn
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Standen House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 1214768
Summary
Oil painting on millboard, Children in a Newlyn Street, by Stanhope Alexander Forbes, RA (Dublin 1857 – Newlyn 1947), signed: bottom left: STANHOPE A. FORBES. Forbes was regarded as leader of the Newlyn School, established around 1885 in the Cornish village of Newlyn. A woman is standing on outside steps of a house watching a boy and girl with a hoop.
Provenance
Purchased from Mr Arthur Grogan, May 1983
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Stanhope A. Forbes Verso: on backboard, of Dowdeswell & Dowdeswell Ltd., 160 New Bond St., London.
Makers and roles
Stanhope Alexander Forbes, RA (Dublin 1857 - Newlyn 1947), artist