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Stanhope Alexander Forbes -- Irish painter (1857-1947) 1889 Tate Gallery, London Oil on canvas 152.4 x 200 cm Presented by Sir Henry Tate 1894 --N01544 jpg: Tate Gallery From: Tate
Gallery
The Health
of the Bride shows a view of the life of the sea . . . It shows the wedding
feast of a young sailor and his bride in a local inn and, . . . was
praised for its social observation. Forbes was the leader of a group of
painters who settled in the Cornish fishing village of Newlyn. They admired
the quality of light there as well as the traditional ways of life, and
painted local activities, far removed from the allegory and symbolism dominant
in academic painting.
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By: Natasha
Wallace
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