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A Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach
A Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach is an oil-on-canvas painting by Stanhope Forbes depicting a fish auction on the beach near Newlyn. It was painted in 1884-5 and exhibited at the Royal Academy summer exhibition in 1885. The painting is now owned by the Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery.
Background.
Forbes was born in Dublin in 1857 and studied at Lambeth School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. He travelled to Paris in 1880 and was
A partial list of his other works includes:
- "A Street in Brittany", 1881, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
- "Study of a Fisherwoman", 1884, oil on canvas, Penlee House
- "A Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach", 1884-5, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
- "A Street in Newlyn", 1885, oil on canvas, Penlee House
- "Off to the Fishing Grounds", 1886
- "Their Evershifting Home,