Stanhope Alexander Forbes Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Stanhope Alexander Forbes NPG x13993

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown photographer

Plein-air genre painter and a leading figure of the Newlyn School. Forbes studied at the Royal Academy and in Paris and travelled to Brittany to learn the progressive French practice of plein-air painting. After further visits to Brittany, Forbes settled in the Cornish village of Newlyn where he joined a group of like-minded artists. His ambitious canvas, A Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach, brought the group to the attention of critics and audiences when exhibited to acclaim at the Royal Academy in 1885.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.

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