Marine Painting in Cornwall from Turner to Alfred Wallis

Artists featured in the exhibition were:-

 

Pre-colony visitors

 

J.M.W. Turner, Thomas Luny, Clarkson Stanfield, Thomas Creswick, Edward William Cooke, Holman Hunt, James Clarke Hook, John Brett, Henry Moore, John Mogford, Henry Martin, Edwin Ellis

 

Post colony visitors

 

David James, William Borrow, Byron Cooper

 

Colony resident artists

 

Newlyn - Stanhope Forbes, Harold Harvey, Agnes Hope Joseph 

Falmouth - Charles Napier Hemy, Henry Tuke, William Ayerst Ingram

St Ives - Julius Olsson, William Fortescue, Charles Mottram

Lamorna - John Lamorna Birch, Robert Morson Hughes

Polperro - John Robertson Reid

Padstow - J H C Millar

Truro - Richard Harry Carter

 

Foreign artists

 

Germany - Theodor Weber

America - William Trost Richards, Paul Dougherty, Frederick Waugh, Sydney Laurence, Donald Angier 

Canada - Harry Britton, William Cutts

Australia - Richard Hayley Lever, Charles Bryant

New Zealand - Herbert Babbage

Belgium - Louis Reckelbus

 

Post 1914 artists

 

Robert Borlase Smart, John Park, George Bradshaw, Dorothea Sharp, Alfred Wallis

What visitors said about the exhibition

 

D & M-A H, Ryde             Lovely show, well hung, such fine works of Art - so glad we didn't miss this

 

J S, Letchworth                London - eat your heart out!  So worth coming here

 

C B-P, Gweek                  Monumental - goes to the heart of Cornwall

 

MS, Cambridge               Splendid exhibition, well curated and displayed

 

RR, Barbados                 Absolutely incredible, blown away by the talent

 

GN, Virginia, USA           This is a gem

 

KN, Manchester              Fabulous, extremely interesting and informative

 

PT, Clitheroe                  Best gallery in the country

 

CP, Woodford Green       Another triumph!

 

Numerous                     Inspirational, stunning, splendid, amazing, excellent, brilliant, beautiful, wonderful, superb, outstanding etc