DOI Heft:
No. 29 (August, 1895)
DOI Artikel:Richards, Frank: Newyln as a sketching ground
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17294#0194
Newlyn as a Sketching Ground
painted by Newlyners have
always been grey ones with
the exception of Mr. Fred
Hall's work; consequently
the place is known under a
rather misleading name.
However, grey or bright, pack
up your traps and come down
for a while and see how you
like it.
I have been in and about
Newlyn for nearly five years,
and know it under all its
various changes and aspects,
according to time of year and
weather, and feel capable
therefore of giving a just
computation of its possibili-
ties (of course, from my point
of view).
That it is dirty underfoot
in the winter-fishy, smelly, " ON THE CLIFFS< NEWLYN " BY FRANK RICHARDS
and somewhat of a lazy place—goes without say- hanging on the walls, together with the well-known
ing, for few fishing villages of its importance are properties so common to a Newlyn studio—" the
better in this respect. It lies just a little more than Green Chair, or Taylor's Pride," " the Langley
a mile distant from Penzance, where, when the Pitcher," the settle, &c.—all of which may be seen
monotony of Newlyn becomes insufferable, as it in nearly every one of them, and in nearly every
ofttimes does in the winter months, one can obtain picture too, alas ! These useful and picturesque
an entire change of everything—of food, society, at- articles are just a little too well known now, but
mosphere and subject—which change is absolutely no doubt they will soon be superseded by others
necessary when living in such an out of the world more interesting perhaps, more important, and
place, where little amusement of an intellectual more lasting.
nature is to be had. The wise men of Burlington House now no longer
During the summer, when many of the men are give preference to the picture that offers as its
away for a rest or change, a visitor to Newlyn can chief or only claim to recognition an excellent
generally manage to get the use of a studio for a portrait of "chair," "quilt," "pitcher," "bureau,"
month, and sometimes longer. Some of the studios "candlestick," or the never-failing "brushwork";
are old cottages that have had a square yard or all of which, though excellent in their way and
more of glass let into the roof; and inside are characteristic of the men and place, are yet apt to
usually to be found a few tanned nets or sails pall after a time; and after all, from such a body
painted by Newlyners have
always been grey ones with
the exception of Mr. Fred
Hall's work; consequently
the place is known under a
rather misleading name.
However, grey or bright, pack
up your traps and come down
for a while and see how you
like it.
I have been in and about
Newlyn for nearly five years,
and know it under all its
various changes and aspects,
according to time of year and
weather, and feel capable
therefore of giving a just
computation of its possibili-
ties (of course, from my point
of view).
That it is dirty underfoot
in the winter-fishy, smelly, " ON THE CLIFFS< NEWLYN " BY FRANK RICHARDS
and somewhat of a lazy place—goes without say- hanging on the walls, together with the well-known
ing, for few fishing villages of its importance are properties so common to a Newlyn studio—" the
better in this respect. It lies just a little more than Green Chair, or Taylor's Pride," " the Langley
a mile distant from Penzance, where, when the Pitcher," the settle, &c.—all of which may be seen
monotony of Newlyn becomes insufferable, as it in nearly every one of them, and in nearly every
ofttimes does in the winter months, one can obtain picture too, alas ! These useful and picturesque
an entire change of everything—of food, society, at- articles are just a little too well known now, but
mosphere and subject—which change is absolutely no doubt they will soon be superseded by others
necessary when living in such an out of the world more interesting perhaps, more important, and
place, where little amusement of an intellectual more lasting.
nature is to be had. The wise men of Burlington House now no longer
During the summer, when many of the men are give preference to the picture that offers as its
away for a rest or change, a visitor to Newlyn can chief or only claim to recognition an excellent
generally manage to get the use of a studio for a portrait of "chair," "quilt," "pitcher," "bureau,"
month, and sometimes longer. Some of the studios "candlestick," or the never-failing "brushwork";
are old cottages that have had a square yard or all of which, though excellent in their way and
more of glass let into the roof; and inside are characteristic of the men and place, are yet apt to
usually to be found a few tanned nets or sails pall after a time; and after all, from such a body