Please note before visiting next Tuesday ⚠️ Wellfields Car Park will be closed next week on Tuesday, 20th May 2025, for essential maintenance work 📣 The nearest alternative car parks are: • Penalverne (St John’s Hall) – Short stay • St Erbyns – Long stay (fb)

NEW ACQUISITION! 🎨 🖼 St Ives, Evening by William Banks Fortescue (1850- 1924) Oil on canvas Penlee House Gallery & Museum - donated in 2024 by David Tovey William Banks Fortescue (1850 - 1924) One of the Newlyn School's many Birmingham-born painters, Fortescue, began his career as an engineering designer before setting out to train as an artist. He studied in Paris, going on to travel in Europe; he is thought to have visited Venice in c.1883/4 as he exhibited Venetian scenes at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists at this time. Fortescue seems to have arrived in Newlyn around 1885, staying at Mrs. Maddern's house, Belle Vue, where Stanhope Forbes was also resident. He was a lively contributor to the social life of the artists' colony, playing the cello, taking part in theatrical performances, and (like his fellow Birmingham artist, Walter Langley) clog dancing. He appears as Newlyn resident in the 1891 census, after which he moved to the nearby village of Paul for a few years, then moved to St. Ives, where he remained for the rest of life. Fortescue was not the most prolific of the Newlyn painters but did exhibit and sell his work, showing at Dowdeswell, Nottingham, and Whitechapel art galleries. He died in St. Ives on 12 March 1924, aged 73. . . . #Cornwall #newlyn #newlynschool #artoninstagram #art #artist #arthistory #museum #gallery #portraits #enpleinair #royalacademyofarts #englishartist #EnglishArt #britishart #britishartist #20thcenturyart #20thcenturypainting #artlovers #oiloncanvaspainting #19thcentury #newacquisition #Acquisition #stives #stivesharbour Love Penzance Penzance Council Art UK Art Fund (fb)