Stanhope Forbes 20 High Resolution Images

Stanhope Forbes captured the working lives of Cornish fishing communities with warmth and careful observation. His harbour scenes, village streets and figures in natural light offer a vivid picture of everyday life in the Newlyn School tradition.

This download features 20 hi-res images in JPEG format by the British artist Stanhope Forbes.

The images are all 600dpi and range from 3392 pixels wide/tall to 6153 pixels wide/tall. 

The pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you’d like, including commercial use.

Stanhope Alexander Forbes RA (1857-1947) 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'.

Forbes 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.

Educated 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 & Guilds of London Art School). By 1878 he attended the Royal Academy Schools under Sir Frederic Leighton and Sir John Millais.

Read our full Stanhope Forbes biography.