Young Apprentice (Newlyn Copperworks)
Artist: Stanhope Alexander Forbes (1857 - 1947)
Location: Penlee House Gallery and Museum
Date: circa 1908
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 76 x 61 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £2,500 (Total: £17,840)
Vendor: David Lay, The Penzance Auction House
Review number: 3455 (1989)
Provenance:
Private collection; David Lay, The Penzance Auction House.
Description:
This large oil sketch shows Johnny Payne Cotton beating copper under the watchful eye of John D Mackenzie. Forbes was the founder of the Newlyn School which had close links with the Copper-workers school. The classes were established to give the local young men instruction in a craft that would provide them with an occupation to replace the jobs that had disappeared with the decline of the Cornish tin and copper mining industry.
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