The Newlyn School in Cornwall flourishes and gains international acclaim during the early 20th century. Coastal landscape paintings to 1922.
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The development of landscape painting of the coast of Cornwall, from the late 18th century, through the Newlyn School, to the 1890s.
In 1869 he sailed on board ‘Panther’ on an expedition to Greenland and the Arctic. Among his subsequent commissioned paintings was one for Queen Victoria.
In the 1850s and 60s he was a successful marine artist, working in whaling ports such as Fairhaven, before moving to Boston.
From Charles Conder’s Holiday at Mentone, Australia, to Pierre Bonnard on the beach at Arcachon in south-west France, in 1922.
From West and Frith’s early paintings of the beach at Ramsgate, through their increasing popularity in the 19th century, to Boudin, Monet and Renoir.
Perhaps the one and only expedition sponsored by an art collector, William Bradford sailed to Greenland in 1869, and based the rest of career on its images.
The other side of his work in the 1860s: chasing the ‘source’ of rivers near Ornans, serried ranks of waves on the coast, and the help of Corot.
Modern landscape painting, since before the Impressionists, relies on oil sketches made in front of the motif. Was it Vernet who advised Valenciennes to adopt this practice?
Paintings of exuberant brilliant yellow mimosa, bleak self-portraits, and his favourite views around Le Cannet from his final years.
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