Goodbye! Off To Skibbereen, 1901, Stanhope Alexander Forbes

Fine Art Archival Pigment print on 270gsm cotton rag paper
Unframed, 40 x 30 cm

Born in Dublin, Stanhope Alexander Forbes (1857 - 1947) was a leading artist of the ‘Newlyn School’ of painters which flourished in Cornwall between 1880 and 1920. His most prolific period of painting was the early 1900s, and his canvas Goodbye! - Off To Skibbereen was produced around 1901. The subject is fishing: the boats are setting out from Newlyn - Britain’s largest fishing port - to follow the shoals of pilchard and herring to the south west coast of Ireland and, particularly, Roaringwater Bay, West Cork. In 2017, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre acquired an engraved print of Goodbye! - Off To Skibbereen, dated 1901.