A Talk about the history of Art in the Cornish town of Newlyn by Alan Read from the Havery Arts Society.
From the 1880s Stanhope Forbes, Walter Langley, Frank Bramley and others working in Cornwall began to be recognised as a discrete school.
Examining the process of that recognition, there will be a description of how the work of the Newlyn-based artists responded to international movements and ultimately how they came into conflict with trends elsewhere in British art.
Alan Read has a masters and first-class honours degree in History of Art from Birkbeck College, University of London. He is a gallery guide at Tate Britain and regularly lectures at both London Tates.
For twenty years he was a gallery guide and lecturer at the National Portrait Gallery and the Dulwich Picture Gallery.
He also works as a London Blue Badge Guide.