STANHOPE FORBES

 

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

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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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