Messum bangs drum for Newlyn school
A rare opportunity to gauge the market for a major Newlyn School painting came at David Lay’s latest auction in Penzance when a lively and clamorous scene by Stanhope Forbes (1857-1947) was offered with a £120,000-180,000 estimate.
Large-scale and important pictures by Forbes, often described as the ‘father’ of the group of arti…