20
May 2026

The Creation and Early Years of the Newlyn School

Welcome to The Arts Society Mid Sussex
Wednesday, May 20, 2026 - 10:30
Whitemans Green Sports Club Cuckfield RH17 5HX
Online Event

An Insight into the Newlyn School. 

From the 1880s Stanhope Forbes, Walter Langley, Frank Bramley and others working in Cornwall began to be recognised as a discrete school. Examining the process of that recognition, there will be a description of how the work of the Newlyn-based artists responded to international movements and ultimately how they came into conflict with trends elsewhere in British art. 

THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Mr Alan Read

Alan has a masters and first-class honours degree in History of Art from Birkbeck College, University of London. He is a gallery guide at Tate Britain and regularly lectures at both London Tates. For twenty years he was a gallery guide and lecturer at the National Portrait Gallery and the Dulwich Picture Gallery. He also works as a London Blue Badge Guide.