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somewhat later, Ay erst Ingram, H. S. Tiike (now A.E A.), H. 

 Martin and F. Millard. It will he noted that among these there 

 are three who are now Associate Members of the Royal Academy, 

 and of those not so selected several have achieved world-wide 

 repute. It may he worth recording here that of the above list 

 of artists twelve shew pictures in the present exhibition (1905) 

 at Burlington House, although for the most part these pictures 

 are not views of Cornish scenery, since nearly all of the original 

 band have now left the neighbourhood of Newlyn excepting the 

 first comer, Walter Langley, and Mr. and Mrs. Stanhope Forbes, 

 both of whom are greatly distinguished as artists of the highest 

 aims. Mr. Stanhope Forbes was trained in the Lambeth School 

 of Art, then at the Eoyal Academy and afterwards at I'onnat's 

 Studio in Pai'is, and first came into notice through his Breton 

 pictures. From Brittany he came to Newlyn and almost 

 immediately achieved success with his picture " A Fish Sale on 

 the Cornish Coast," which was exhibited in 18 So; seven years 

 later, in 1892, he was elected an Associate Member of the Royal 

 Academy, in the j^resent exhibition of which he shews three 

 pictures, and Mrs Stanhope Forbes one. A word as to Newlyn 

 itself. At first the artists found very rough quarters. " Here is 

 " a mite of a cottage clinging close to the ground, as the Cornish 

 " cottage loves to cling. Under its beetling roof of thatch it 

 "looks almost too tiny to harbour the broad-chested yellow 

 " bearded fisherman whose home it is. Your eyes wander from 

 "one to another of its quaint details and lo, in the midst of the 

 " weatherbeaten thatch there is a large glass skylight. It is in 

 " these primitive quarters that an artist has found a nook for his 

 "studio." While another writer says: "A Newlyn artist in 

 "those days was put to an awkward shift. . . . at best the thing 

 "was a picnic, a hazard, and a man had to labour, so to speak, 

 " with his work on his knees. To say that Mr. Stanhope Forbes 

 " buckled to his enterprise amid such untoward surroimdings 

 " says much not only for his enterjirise, but for his hardihood." 

 Now, however, all this has changed. At the instance of Mr. A. 

 Bateman, an enthusiastic amateur, the upland known as 

 " California" can-ies (j^uite a numlter of well built studios. 



But I must not linger longer over the fascinating subject of 

 Newlyn. A word for the St. Ives School, which was founded 



