Elizabeth Forbes
Elizabeth Stanhope Forbes and her husband Alexander Stanhope Forbes were both prominent members of The Newlyn School of Painters, the leading pioneers of 'plein-air' painting in Britain at the end of the 19th Century.
Born in Canada, Elizabeth Stanhope Forbes first visited England as a young girl. She and her mother stayed with an uncle in Chelsea next door to Rossetti. She returned with her mother to Ottawa and in about 1877 she visited friends in America and joined the Art Student's League in New York, where she studied for two or three years. She then moved to Munich and later to Brittany.
In 1883 Elizabeth had three works accepted by the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours and the same year, a painting entitled 'Summer' was exhibited at the Royal Academy. In addition to her work in oils and watercolours she was a brilliant etcher, however the problems associated with printing in Cornwall caused her to abandon this medium as early as 1886. She and her mother settled in Newlyn during the Autumn of 1885 where she met Stanhope Forbes whom she married in 1889.
An ardent believer in the principles of plein-air painting, Elizabeth also developed her special aptitude for depicting children and held two exhibitions devoted entirely to this theme, entitled 'Children and Child Love' at the Fine Art Society in 1900 and 'Model Children and Other People' at the Leicester Galleries in 1904.
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