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Art History In Cornwall @arthistorycornwall.bsky.social · Apr 25

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

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Art History In Cornwall @arthistorycornwall.bsky.social · Apr 23

Happy Belated Birthday to one of the most prominent British female artists of the early-to-mid twentieth century Dod Procter R.A.

@artukdotorg.bsky.social @penleehousegallery.bsky.social #Onthisday #FemaleArtist #DodProcter #FineArt #Portraits

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Art History In Cornwall @arthistorycornwall.bsky.social · Apr 22

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

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Art History In Cornwall @arthistorycornwall.bsky.social · Apr 17

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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Art History In Cornwall @arthistorycornwall.bsky.social · Apr 11

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Art History In Cornwall @arthistorycornwall.bsky.social · Apr 11

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’.

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Art History In Cornwall @arthistorycornwall.bsky.social · Apr 9

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.

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Art History In Cornwall @arthistorycornwall.bsky.social · Apr 8

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.

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Art History In Cornwall @arthistorycornwall.bsky.social · Mar 31

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).

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Art History In Cornwall @arthistorycornwall.bsky.social · Mar 27

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

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Art History In Cornwall @arthistorycornwall.bsky.social · Mar 25

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

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Art History In Cornwall @arthistorycornwall.bsky.social · Mar 25

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.

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Art History In Cornwall @arthistorycornwall.bsky.social · Mar 22

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.

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Art History In Cornwall @arthistorycornwall.bsky.social · Mar 22

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

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Art History In Cornwall @arthistorycornwall.bsky.social · Mar 20

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.'

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Art History In Cornwall @arthistorycornwall.bsky.social · Mar 18

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

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Art History In Cornwall @arthistorycornwall.bsky.social · Mar 17

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

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Art History In Cornwall @arthistorycornwall.bsky.social · Feb 24

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? 🌼🌸🌻🌹

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Art History In Cornwall @arthistorycornwall.bsky.social · Feb 23

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

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Art History In Cornwall @arthistorycornwall.bsky.social · Feb 19

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.

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Art History In Cornwall @arthistorycornwall.bsky.social · Feb 13

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

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Art History In Cornwall @arthistorycornwall.bsky.social · Feb 11

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

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Art History In Cornwall @arthistorycornwall.bsky.social · Feb 9

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.

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Art History In Cornwall @arthistorycornwall.bsky.social · Feb 4

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.

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Art History In Cornwall @arthistorycornwall.bsky.social · Feb 4

Five AM, 1928
Ernest Procter (1886–1935)
@jerwoodfoundation.bsky.social

'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

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