Art History In Cornwall

A Tate photograph shows Harold and Laura Knight with Phyllis Yglesias at Sennen in summer 1921/22. The painting on Laura’s easel resembles Sennen Beach—the girl on the wall and cart align—though she made many versions of this scene.

A Tate photograph shows Harold and Laura Knight with Phyllis Yglesias at Sennen in summer 1921/22. The painting on Laura’s easel resembles Sennen Beach—the girl on the wall and cart align—though she made many versions of this scene.

A wide sandy beach at low tide with scattered figures resting, walking, and playing; a horse-drawn cart stands near the shore, while green hills rise in the distance under a cloudy sky.

Laura Knight fell for Cornwall in 1907 and returned for decades to paint its light. In Sennen Beach (1923), children paddle, a horse and cart rest, and daily life drifts by in sea air and sun—timeless, radiant, and full of quiet coastal joy.

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

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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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

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)

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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’.

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.

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.

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).

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

The painting was presented to the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery by the artist in 1939 in memory of his first wife.

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.

As Knight herself notes: 'Close by my hut, Carn Barges towered. No human hand could have fashioned so architecturally magnificent a pile of granite. On the flat rocks below were deep pools for swimming and pools in which to paddle.

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

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.'

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.

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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

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? 🌼🌸🌻🌹

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

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.

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

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

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.

The girl on the right, wearing her blonde hair long, rather than fashionably bobbed like her companions, bears a resemblance to Eileen Mayo, the London model who sat for both Laura Knight and Dod Procter in the 1920s.

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

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

A Newlyn Street Scene, 1885.
Walter Langley (1852–1922)
Pencil and watercolour with scratching out on paper

#Watercolour #Cornwall #Art #Newlyn #WalterLangley

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!'