ELIZABETH ADELA STANHOPE FORBES, A.R.W.S. (BRITISH 1859-1912)
Lot 133

ELIZABETH ADELA STANHOPE FORBES, A.R.W.S. (BRITISH 1859-1912)

An apron full of flowers

Fermé15 July 2021

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ELIZABETH ADELA STANHOPE FORBES, A.R.W.S. (BRITISH 1859-1912)
An apron full of flowers
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour on artist's board
14 ½ x 10 ½ in. (36.8 x 26.7 cm.)

with Pyms Gallery, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 30 June 2010, lot 169.
Mr. A. Beasley.
with Peter Ohler Fine Art, Vancouver, Canada.
with Masters Gallery, Calgary, Canada.

Note du spécialiste


Elizabeth Forbes was unique among the Newlyn artists in her ability to evoke a fantasy world out of the Cornish landscape, and in depicting the magical qualities of childhood. Stanhope Forbes, her husband, was a rigid adherent to social realism, but he appreciated her ability, describing her work in oil and watercolour as 'charming and beautiful paintings which combine such lovely imaginative qualities with almost unrivalled technical skill and artistic feeling' (see C. Fox, Stanhope Forbes and the Newlyn School, London, 1993, p. 49).