Ralph Todd
Ralph Todd (* 1856 ; † 1932 ) was an English genre and portrait painter of late Impressionism and a representative of the Newlyn School , an artist colony of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Todd preferred to paint with opaque watercolors .
life and work
Like many of his later painting colleagues, Ralph Todd studied in Holland , Belgium and Paris . From 1882 to 1883 he stayed for painting studies in Brittany , where he stayed in Quimperlé in the same hotel as Stanhope Forbes . The two became friends and spent the next few months together. In 1883 he settled in Newlyn in Cornwall , where Walter Langley and Edwin Harris had already settled in 1882 . Percy Robert Craft , Frank Bramley , Thomas Cooper Gotch , Albert Chevallier Tayler and Stanhope Forbes followed in the next few years . An artists' colony was formed that became known as the Newlyn School . In the mid-1890s Todd left Newlyn and moved to St Keverne , but shared a studio in Newlyn with fellow painter Frederick Millard . Todd later moved to Helston , where he stayed until the end of his life. Here he also created paintings under the pseudonym Rupert Meneage , presumably because he lived in Helston on Meneage Street . Todd has exhibited his work in numerous galleries including the Royal Academy of Arts , the Royal Society of British Artists , the Royal Institute of Oil Painters , the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colors , the Liverpool Walker Art Gallery and the Manchester Art Gallery . One of his most famous oil paintings is Primrose Day from 1885, which is now in Penlee House in Penzance . His son Arthur Ralph Middleton Todd also became an artist and later a member of the Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colors, later the Royal Watercolor Society .
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| SURNAME | Todd, Ralph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English late impressionist painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1856 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1932 |