Stanhope Forbes Oil Painting Reproductions

Irish artist Stanhope A. Forbes founded the Newlyn School of Art in Cornwall with his wife Elizabeth Stanhope-Forbes, also an artist, whom he met whilst studying at what was The South Kensington School of Art. After studying in Paris the couple moved to Cornwall, where the light was similar to that in France and it was there they founded the Newlyn School, working alongside other Newlyn School artists such as Walter Langley and Henry Scott Tuke.

Buy art reproductions on canvas of Stanhope Alexander Forbes paintings A Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach 1884 which depicts the local fish auction at Newlyn and A Street in Brittany 1881 which portrays Breton women knitting in the street at Cancale. Both paintings were exhibited at Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions.

Stanhope Forbes painting Old Newlyn 1884 is just one of his famous oil paintings on canvas which was sold by Sotheby’s in 1992.

Do you like Newlyn School paintings by Stanhope Forbes or do you enjoy reproductions of famous paintings celebrating the beauty of the Cornish Coastline? Enjoy browsing replica paintings from both Stanhope Forbes and his wife Elizabeth Forbes.