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Stanhope Alexander Forbes RA (1857-1947) SELF PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN signed and da...

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Stanhope Alexander Forbes RA (1857-1947) SELF PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN signed and da...
Stanhope Alexander Forbes RA (1857-1947)
SELF PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
signed and dated [1882] lower left; with a printed label "George Squire, Holles
Street, W." on reverse
oil on board
22 by 15cm., 8.75 by 6in.
Born in Dublin, the son of a railway manager and his French wife, Stanhope
Forbes became one of the best known painters of his generation, and an important
link between English and Irish artists of the period. He studied at the Lambeth
School of Art and at the RA Schools (1874-1878), before moving to France where
he spent two years in the studio of Bonnat. In the years 1881-1883 he painted in
Brittany, meeting a host of other young artists including the Irishmen Walter
Osborne, Joseph Malachy Kavanagh, Nathaniel Hill and Norman Garstin – all of
them influenced by the plein air naturalism of Bastien-Lepage. In 1884 Forbes
moved to Newlyn in Cornwall, where along with Garstin he became a leading
proponent of the Newlyn School. He was a founding member of the NEAC, and
together with his wife Elizabeth he ran a well known painting school in Newlyn.
The present work shows him as a very young man, with his trademark lean features
and moustache.
€2,000-€4,000 (£1,300-£2,700 sterling approx.)