STANHOPE FORBES

 

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Stanhope Alexander Forbes (1857-1947) was Irish Painter, who created many figurative and rural street scapes. He studied art at the Royal Academy Schools, and later at the private atelier of Léon Bonnat in Paris.

Stanhope, loved the plein-air paintings, calling it, ‘a breath of fresh air in the tired atmosphere of the studios.‘ He married a fellow painter, Elizabeth Adela Armstrong, and together they established the Newlyn School of Art in 1899, to encourage plein-air painting.

Stanhope, painted his, early landscapes were in solid tones of pre-impressionist style. Over the course of his career, his depictions of genre scenes and landscapes, became lighter in colour and included fewer human figures. His impressionistic style met with considerable success. This gave encouragement to his career in plein-air painting. He continued to draw with extra ordinary clarity and simplicity. He was called ‘a good unsentimental painter’. Many of his interior paintings show his mastery over lighting and warmth through little sources. He loved working on coastal villages in Brittany fishing villages, and harbours. 

 

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JACOBUS VREL

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Jacobus Vrel (1654-1670) was Dutch, Flemish, (or Westphalian =NW Germany), painter of interiors and town street scenes. He worked through the Dutch Golden period (1588–1672).

In terms of pictorial ideas, Vrel was a forerunner of Vermeer, rather than a follower. He has in common with Vermeer, the simplicity of composition, lesser attention to details. Vrel painted without glazes. He painted intimate atmospheric scenes of everyday life of the Dutch middle class. But he never painted any historical or important events. Due to little historical evidence, he has been called, ‘the most elusive painter of 17^th C. Holland’. It is believed that he lived in a provincial town, rather than a major art centre. The places in his scenes are possibly imaginary. 

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CORNELIS SPRINGER

 

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Originally published on 7 JAN 2018, Now refreshed presentation.

Cornelis Springer (1817-1891) was a Dutch Painter of town views. He learnt painting from his father, Carpenter Willem Springer. and Hendrik Gerrit ten Cate, Kasparus Karsen, Jacobus van der Stok. His brother Heindrik was a professional architect and he introduced Cornelis to the principles of perspective and architectural design.

Springer was a prolific painter. He began with imaginary town scapes and images of bygone age. His paintings include views of Amsterdam, Alkmaar, Den Briel, Enkhuizen, Haarlem, Oudewater and Zwolle, as well as German towns. He worked with diverse mediums like water colours, chalk, pencil, etchings, and oil paintings. He had no particular bias for certain perspectives, and has handled the visual space from many different facets. He has used natural light to define the space and its extent without resorting to make-believe contrasts. 

 

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