One the "best groups" of Newlyn School paintings to come up for sale for a long time is going under the hammer in Penzance.
The works include classic local scenes by some of the best loved Newlyn School painters such as Walter Langley, Percy Craft and Edwin Harris.
The paintings have come from various different sources rather than one collector and they show an interesting cross section of work from painters living and working in the area from the 1880's period.
Of particular interest to Cornish historians is the large Walter Langley "Catching up with the Cornish Telegraph" which shows a fisherman reading the paper to two woman in Newlyn harbour.
Other works of interest include a painting by the relatively unknown artist Richard Harry Carter. Carter was a Cornishman born in Truro in 1839 to much humbler beginnings than many of his moneyed fellow Newlyn school painters.
He lived and worked in Falmouth and Truro then later boarded with a fisherman and his family in Sennen Cove. Although he exhibited at the Royal Academy he needed to supplement his income with clerking and accountancy work. The large painting by him in this auction shows a hardy fisherman at sea, possibly his Sennen landlord, unhooking an enormous cod.
The paintings go under the hammer at David Lay, The Penzance Auction House, Alverton, Penzance on Thursday, January 24 at 11am. The auction is on view to the public on Saturday, January 19 from 9am-1pm and on Wednesday, January 23 from 9am to 7pm.
The sale can be viewed online at www.davidlay.co.uk
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