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6 unusual facts about Stanhope Forbes


A Street in Brittany

A Street in Brittany is a painting dated 1881 by the artist Stanhope Forbes.

Frank Hutchens

Scholarships in composition are awarded annually in his name to students under 25, and his portrait, by Cornish painter Stanhope Forbes, is held by the Sydney Conservatorium to which he devoted so much of his working life.

Robert Cyril Morton Jenkins

In 1939 the artist Stanhope Forbes was commissioned to paint a portrait of Jenkins on oil and canvas.

Stanhope Forbes

The exhibition of A Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach also brought notoriety to Forbes and the artist colony.

The piece is a portrait of the then Chief Constable of Penzance Borough Police, Robert Cyril Morton Jenkins

A painting made there, A Street in Brittany, was shown and well received at the 1882 Royal Academy exhibition and sold later that year to the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.



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