Stanhope Forbes
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Stanhope Alexander Forbes R.A., (18 November 1857, – 2 March 1947), was an artist and member of the influential Newlyn school
Newlyn School
The Newlyn School is a term used to describe an art colony of artists based in or near to Newlyn, a fishing village adjacent to Penzance, Cornwall, from the 1880s until the early 20th century. The establishment of the Newlyn School was reminiscent of the Barbizon School in France, where artists...

 of painters. Often called 'the father of the Newlyn School', Forbes's painting A Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach (1885), brought national recognition to the eponymous art colony that had grown up around that fishing village in the far west of Cornwall.

He was married to fellow painter Elizabeth Forbes
Elizabeth Forbes (artist)
Elizabeth Adela Forbes was a Canadian painter who was primarily active in England. She often featured children in her paintings and Schools Out is one of her most popular works. She was friends with the artists James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Walter Sickert, both of whom influenced her work...

 (1859-1912) and together they founded the School of Painting in Newlyn in 1899, which attracted students such as Ernest and Dod Procter
Dod Procter
Dod Procter was a Cornish artist, and wife of artist Ernest Procter. Her painting, Morning, was bought for the nation by the Daily Mail in 1927.-Life and work:...

, Frank Gascoigne Heath and Jill and Geoffrey Garnier.

Forbes was born in Dublin, the son of an English Railway manager and his French wife. Schooled at Dulwich, he studied art at the Lambeth School of Art
Lambeth School of Art
Lambeth School of Art was founded in 1854 by William Gregory as a night school associated with the St. Mary the Less Church in London.-History:...

 (now the City & Guilds of London Art School), then in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 under Léon Bonnat
Léon Bonnat
Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat was a French painter.He was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 he lived in Madrid, where his father owned a bookshop. While tending his father's shop, he copied engravings of works by the Old Masters, developing a passion for drawing...

. Forbes went to Brittany in 1881 with fellow artist La Thangue. In France he came into contact with the new en plein air
En plein air
En plein air is a French expression which means "in the open air", and is particularly used to describe the act of painting outdoors.Artists have long painted outdoors, but in the mid-19th century working in natural light became particularly important to the Barbizon school and Impressionism...

 painters.

He moved to Newlyn
Newlyn
Newlyn is a town and fishing port in southwest Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.Newlyn forms a conurbation with the neighbouring town of Penzance and is part of Penzance civil parish...

 in Cornwall
Cornwall
Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...

 in 1884, and soon became a leading figure in the growing colony of artists, most of whom shared his Breton-inspired passion for rural naturalism.

In Newlyn, Forbes tutored the landscape watercolourist Mabel Mary Spanton
Mabel Mary Spanton
Mabel Mary Spanton, Member, RWS was an English landscape painter who primarily worked in watercolour.-Life and work:...

.

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