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In the Orchard, 1884
Walter Langley (1852–1922)

The artist's viewpoint is from the garden of his home, Pembroke Lodge, in Newlyn, looking across Mounts Bay. Langlley captures a warm, summertime moment harvesting the small orchard's crop of apples.

#FineArt #Watercolour #Newlyn #WalterLangley
April 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Happy Belated Birthday to one of the most prominent British female artists of the early-to-mid twentieth century Dod Procter R.A.

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April 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Happy World Earth Day 🌏
Summer, 1917
Harold Harvey RA (1874-1941)
Oil on canvas

Harvey was a Newlyn School painter who painted scenes of working-class Cornish fishermen, farmers and miners, and Cornish landscapes.

#WorldEarthDay #Cornwall #FineArt
April 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Epsom Downs c.1938
Dame Laura Knight RA RWS (1877–1970)
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

One of the highlights of my trip to Bristol was seeing this beautiful Laura Knight painting in person (my reaction was captured by my wonderful best friend)
April 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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April 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
A Summer Afternoon
Frank Gascoigne Heath (1873-1931)

Heath came to Newlyn in c.1901 to study under Stanhope Forbes, and shortly thereafter, he exhibited at the Royal Academy.

The influence of artist friends brought a change of style to his painting, earning him the epithet ‘the sunshine artist’.
April 11, 2025 at 7:57 AM
On Paul Hill, 1922
Stanhope Forbes RA (1857–1947)

Forbes lost his first wife, Elizabeth, to cancer in 1912, and their only child, Alec, was killed in World War I four years later. However, this painting is full of optimism, with the next generation basking in Cornish sunshine.
April 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A Little Garland Fits a Little Head
Elizabeth Adela Forbes (1859-1912)

A lady and a little girl outside the Forbes's home at Higher Faugan, Newlyn, inspired the setting for a group of paintings and poetry illustrations depicting girls and children in the exotic woodlands of the Cornish countryside.
April 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
White Squall 🌊
Albert Julius Olsson (1864–1942)
Oil on canvas

’A “big man with a big heart, who paints big pictures with big brushes in a big studio.“ He did more than any other painter to stamp St Ives as a British outpost of impressionism.’ (Folliott Stokes and Cornwall Artists’ Index).
March 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
In the Meadow
Harold C. Harvey (1874-1941)
Oil on board

Depicting a striking dark-haired child garlanded by wild flowers in a meadow. It is an utterly charming portrait and a very fine example of this talented Cornish artist’s work.

#fineart #cornwall #haroldharvey #spring #meadow #art
March 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The Family at Polperro by Bernard Fleetwood-Walker

The artist's first wife, Mickey, and their two sons, Colin and Guy, on a day out at the beach in the Cornish town of Polperro. The group is close both physically and emotionally; it is a satisfied and satisfying picture.
March 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Carn Barges, Sennen Cove
Dame Laura Knight, RA, RWS (1877-1970)

The picture depicts a well-known Cornish outcrop, not too far from Lands End and close to Laura Knight's studio hut at Lamorna, which had been built specially for her by the local squire at the time, Colonel Paynter. #FineArt #Cornwall
March 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Spring, 1916–20
Dame Laura Knight RA.

‘Painted during the WW1. At that time,it was against the law to paint out of doors anywhere near the Cornish Coast. I had to lie on my stomach under any convenient bush, to make a line or two in a sketch book, memorise - rush back into my studio, and paint.'
March 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Tulip Pickers, 1926
Harold Harvey (1874-1941)
Oil on canvas

During the 1920s, Harold Harvey painted a number of studies of women working in the fields. This represents a rather idealised view of what we know to be backbreaking work.

#FineArt #Cornwall #HaroldHarvey #Tulips #Art
March 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Marjory (Girl on Horseback), 1913 by Sir Alfred James Munnings, P.R.A., R.W.S. (1878-1959)

Confidently meeting the viewer's gaze through the shade of the tree canopy, Marjory, a young local Cornish girl, is clearly an enigmatic and captivating sitter.

#FineArt #AlfredMunnings #HorseArt #Painting
March 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Picking chrysanthemums, 1915
Harold Harvey (1874-1941)

Harvey returned to the theme of flowers throughout his career. Whether they depicted a life of leisure or work, flowers were central to his imagery and are at the heart of many of his greatest works.

What's your favourite flowers? 🌼🌸🌻🌹
February 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Self Portrait, c 1921
Dame Laura Knight RA (1877-1970)
Private Collection

Knight was one of the most popular and pioneering British artists of the twentieth century. Her artistic career took her from Cornwall to Baltimore and from the circus to the Nuremberg Trials.

#femaleartist #selfportrait
February 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Morning Sunshine, 1911
Harold Harvey (1874-1941)
Oil on canvas

Harvey was one of the few Cornish-born artists
associated with the Newlyn Colony and Lamorna
Artists. He was the son of a bank manager and grew up
in Penzance in the 1870s and 1880s, just when the area
was becoming an artistic haven.
February 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Happy Galentines ❤️
Dame Laura Knight RA and Dod Procter RA, two talented and inspiring artists, were among the pioneering female academicians who broke the glass ceiling at the RA. Today, I urge you to emulate their determination and chase your artistic dreams #womenshistory #galentines #strongwomen
February 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Reading in the Garden, 1940
Harold Harvey (1874-1941)
Oil on canvas
Private Collection.

Is anyone else dreaming of summer evenings, reading in the garden until the sun sets and bringing out their summer wardrobe again? ☀️📚
#FineArt #readinginart #cornwall #haroldharvey #art #Summer
February 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Mending the Nets
Edwin Harris (1855-1906)
Private Collection

Harris settled in Newlyn, Cornwall in 1883 and stayed there for 12 years. Harris was recognised as one of the pioneers of the Newlyn School of artists, which included his fellow Birmingham painters, Langley, Wainwright, and Fortescue.
February 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Five AM, 1928
Ernest Procter (1886–1935)
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'Five AM' probably depicts art students or models at the painting school which Procter ran with his friend, Harold Harvey, between 1920 and around 1928, in a large studio near the old harbour in Newlyn.

#ErnestProcter #Art
February 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Lamorna Valley, late afternoon
Lamorna Birch, R.A., R.W.S., R.W.A. (1869-1955)
Oil on canvas
Private Collection

Painted from the garden of the Lamorna Hotel where it previously hung.

#Lamorna #FineArt #Cornwall #LamornaBirch #Art #Artist #ArtHistory
February 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A Newlyn Street Scene, 1885.
Walter Langley (1852–1922)
Pencil and watercolour with scratching out on paper

#Watercolour #Cornwall #Art #Newlyn #WalterLangley
January 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The Bridge, 1888
Stanhope Forbes, RA (1857-1947)

As he was painting the picture in July 1888, Stanhope Forbes reported in a letter that there were '... fishermen getting up a fight nearby when I was working, and I had all the village round me. My picture blew over in the mud!'
January 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM