Mid 20th Century Portrait Oil Painting Cornish Fisherman Smoking Pipe Follower of Newlyn School

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1 Fine British Portrait Oil Painting Cornish Bearded Fisherman Smoking Pipe Follower Of Newlyn School.
Subject portrait half length front … more 1 Fine British Portrait Oil Painting Cornish Bearded Fisherman Smoking Pipe Follower Of Newlyn School.
Subject portrait half length front view of a Cornish bearded Fisherman smoking his pipe, looking to the right, he has long brown thick hair and has an impressive large thick brown beard with moustache, wearing his best nautical olive green hat and coat with a maroon jumper.
Signed by the unknown British artist H Lodge, who's painting style is very much similar influenced follower of the Newlyn School.
Oil on board.
Set in a traditional distressed white frame.
With hanging thread on the back ready for immediate home display.
Circa mid 20th century.
Newlyn School of Art is a dynamic and innovative art school situated in the heart of the famous artistic colony of Newlyn in Cornwall a few hundred yards from where the Forbes School of Painting was run by Stanhope Forbes, the 'Father' of the Newlyn School of Painters, between 1899 and 1938.
The School provides a wide range of high-quality and exciting short art courses in disciplines such as landscape, portraiture and figure; all taught by over thirty of the most well-known artists working in Cornwall today.
Newlyn and the Arts In the early 1880’s many of Britain’s most talented artists began arriving in Newlyn. A number of these artists had trained on the continent and many had spent time in artistic colonies in France. Newlyn offered these artists similar scenes to those they had painted in Brittany providing them with a wealth of local models and cheap accommodation within a beautiful fishing community which had been untouched by the industrial revolution.
1884 saw the arrival of Stanhope Forbes who would later become known as the emblematic figurehead of the thirty or so painters who made up the ‘Newlyn School’. The term ‘the Newlyn School’ is used to describe this group of early artistic residents of Newlyn who were bound together by their shared belief in the importance of ‘en Plein air painting and their desire to capture the lives of the local fishing and farming communities.
Other members of the group included significant names such as Walter Langley, Elizabeth Forbes (nee Armstrong), Frank Bramley, Henry Scott Tuke, Fred Hall, Norman Garstin, Thomas Cooper Gotch, Frank Wright Bourdillon, Harold Harvey and Percy Craft among many others. It was largely through submissions to the annual Royal Academy Exhibitions that the Newlyn School painters became so well known, particularly after Stanhope Forbes’ triumph in 1885 with ‘A Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach.
So great in number were the artists of the Newlyn School that the Great Western Railway Company was forced to add additional carriages to the Penzance to London train to accommodate the number of submissions to the annual Royal Academy Exhibition by the many artists resident in Newlyn.
In a period of 20 years between 1880 and 1900, over 130 artists spent a proportion of their time working in Newlyn.
In 1899 as the number of artists in Newlyn began to decline Stanhope Forbes and his artist wife Elizabeth set up the Forbes School of Painting, reinvigorating the colony and attracting a new generation of artists to Newlyn including Dod and Ernest Proctor, and in time, Alfred Munnings and Harold and Laura Knight.
Currently, the largest collection of work by the Newlyn School artists is held at Penlee House Gallery, Penzance.
This is such a superb portrait by such a talented artist having the skills of a master.
Superb brushstroke control which brings persons face to life so realistic.
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Condition report.
Offered in fine used condition.
The painting surface us in very good order condition, with some minor stains in areas.The frame has general wear and scuffs also paint losses to frame commensurate with usage & age.
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Dimensions in centimetres of frame approximate

High (42 cm)
Wide (31.5 cm)
Depth (1.5 cm) less