Landscapes Gallery

A China Clay Pit, Leswidden, Harold Harvey (1874-1941)

Oil on canvas, Newlyn School, 1920 or 1924. This painting shows the harsh, labour-intensive working conditions of a china clay pit. Leswidden China Clay Works, near St Just, was a more primitive works than the larger, more mechanised works in the St Austell area. The pit was closed before 1942. Harold Harvey was one of the few successful artists of the period who was born and raised in Cornwall. He grew up surrounded by the industry he would later paint and counted many of the working people he depicted as friends. He originally studied under Norman Garstin, but also visited Paris as a young man where he was greatly influenced by the Post-Impressionist movement. His earlier work was very much influenced by Stanhope Forbes, though it changed as he grew older, his brushwork becoming less thick and his forms more simple. Some of his later work shows a period stylisation but without the Picasso influences of his contemporaries Ernest and Dod Procter. Harvey continued to work right up to his death in 1941

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Bodiam Castle, Sussex (pencil & w/c with gum arabic on paper)

XCF44579 Bodiam Castle, Sussex (pencil & w/c with gum arabic on paper) by Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851); 38x54.5 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Turner here views the building from across the river Rother. On the left is The Red Lion Inn (now The Castle) which dates from the fifteenth century. Some women are drying the washing in the sun. ); English, out of copyright

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Turner - The Iveagh Seapiece J910563

KENWOOD HOUSE, THE IVEAGH BEQUEST, London. " The Iveagh Seapiece " by TURNER JMW. Also known as " Coast Scene of Fishermen Hauling a Boat Ashore ". Not to be confused with painting at Southampton called " Fishermen upon a Lee Shore in Squally Weather " also by Turner JMW

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