Percy Robert Craft
Percy Robert Craft (* 1856 in Kent ; † 1934 ) was an English landscape and genre painter of late Impressionism and a representative of the Newlyn School , an artist colony of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
life and work
Percy Robert Craft received private tuition in his childhood and adolescence. As a young man he attended, like Thomas Cooper Gotch and Albert Chevallier Tayler, first Heatherley's Art School and then the Slade School of Fine Art in London . However, in contrast to his later artist colleagues, his art studies apparently did not take him to Antwerp or Paris , but instead stayed in England, where he soon married. In 1885 he and his wife settled in Newlyn in Cornwall , where other painters such as Walter Langley and Stanhope Forbes had settled since 1882 . A colony of artists had formed which came to be known as the Newlyn School . Craft lived in the same house with Stanhope Forbes during this time.
Craft was an excellent actor and singer , he wrote and composed, so that he soon became the organizer and director of the informal Newlyn Artists' Dramatic Society . Although Craft also exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts , he was often unable to sell his paintings. Craft, like Thomas Cooper Gotch, was involved in setting up the Newlyn Industrial Classes , in which arts and crafts were taught. Percy Craft and his wife left Newlyn in the mid-1890s and moved to London. There Craft was regularly involved in organizing exhibitions of the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists , which Thomas Cooper Gotch had founded and in which many artists from Newlyn were members.
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| SURNAME | Craft, Percy Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English late impressionist painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kent |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1934 |