Penlee House Gallery & Museum

Newlyn School Painting Audio walking tour around Newlyn and Penzance. Created by Penlee House Gallery & Museum. Voiced by Penlee House Volunteer Tour Guides.

On Paul Hill by Stanhope Forbes
1922
Oil on canvas 
Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of Penlee House, Penzance Town Council and the National Art Collections Fund, 2006

Tolcarne Inn by Dod Procter
© the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. Photo credit: Penlee House Gallery & Museum
On loan from a private individual

Newlyn Bridge by Harold C. Harvey
Photo credit: Penlee House Gallery & Museum

In a Cornish Fishing Village – Departure of the Fleet for the North by Walter Langley

The Western Union Fleet, Mount's Bay by Charles Walter Simpson (1885-1971) 
The Western Union Fleet sailed into Mount's Bay on June 30 1949. It comprised 109 ships from Britain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Altogether there were 22,000 seamen. The fleet was formed shortly after the Western Union Pact was introduced, and was part of a huge peace-keeping exercise carried out in the Bay of Biscay. En route, the ships gathered in Mount's Bay, where they stayed for four days before heading out past the Isles of Scilly to engage in submarine detection and aircraft bombardment exercises. Field Marshall Montgomery flew to Penzance to greet the fleet and spent so long viewing it from the air that he lost his landing slot and had to circle the Bay until he could land safely.

The Western Union Fleet, Mount's Bay by Charles Simpson

The blue structure in the middle-ground of this painting was a collecting box for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, placed on Penzance promenade in 1877.

The Rain it Raineth Every Day by Norman Garstin

Newlyn School Paintings

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On Paul Hill by Stanhope Forbes

Tolcarne Inn by Dod Procter

Newlyn Bridge by Harold Harvey

Eyes and No Eyes by Frank Bramley

Among the Missing by Walter Langley

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