{"title":"Forbes, Stanhope","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStanhope Alexander Forbes RA (1857-1947)\u003c\/strong\u003e was an Irish artist and a founding member of the influential Newlyn school of painters. He was often called 'the father of the Newlyn School'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForbes was born in Dublin, the son of Juliette de Guise Forbes, a French woman, and William Forbes, an English railway manager, who was later transferred to London. He had an older brother, Sir William Forbes, who was a railway manager for the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEducated at Dulwich College, he studied art under John Sparkes who later taught at South Kensington School of Art. His father then worked for the Luxembourg Railway and after a period of poor health Forbes was removed from Dulwich College and studied under private teachers in Brussels. This afforded additional time to draw. After the end of the Franco-Prussian War, the Forbes family returned to London. John Sparkes helped influence William Forbes to recognise his son's artistic talent, Stanhope Forbes then attended Lambeth School of Art (now the City \u0026amp; Guilds of London Art School). By 1878 he attended the Royal Academy Schools under Sir Frederic Leighton and Sir John Millais.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForbes returned to Ireland for a few months to visit Dr Andrew Melville, family friend and Queen's College professor. While there the men shared their appreciation of art and Forbes painted landscapes of the Galway area. He also received his first commission for a portrait. Back in London, at the age of 18, he received another commission for a portrait of a doctor's daughter, Florence. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1879.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe then studied at the private atelier of Léon Bonnat in Clichy, Paris from 1880 to 1882. Henry Herbert La Thangue, who also attended Dulwich College, Lambeth School of Art and the Royal Academy, came to Paris, too, and studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. Arthur Hacker, a friend from the Royal Academy joined Forbes at Bonnat's atelier. In 1881 Forbes and La Thangue went to Cancale, Brittany and painted en plein air, like Jules Bastien-Lepage, which became a technique that Forbes used throughout his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe was married in the summer of 1889 to fellow painter Elizabeth Armstrong at Newlyn's St Peter's Church. Their first home was at the \"Cliffs Castle\" cottage, which overlooked the sea. They had a son named Alexander (usually known as Alec), born 26 May 1893. The couple had a home built for the family in Higher Faughan, Penzance. Elizabeth died in 1912.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1915, Forbes married friend and previous student Maudie Palmer, who had been \"assistant, helper and friend to the whole Forbes family.\" During the First World War his son Alec served in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and was killed on 3 September 1916. He is buried in Guillemont Road Cemetery where his headstone bears an inscription composed by his father: HE SAW BEYOND THE FILTH OF BATTLE, AND THOUGHT DEATH A FAIR PRICE TO PAY TO BELONG TO THE COMPANY OF THESE FELLOWS. Stanhope Forbes also sculpted and erected a memorial to his son in their local parish church.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForbes died in Newlyn on 2 March 1947 at the age of 89. 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