Fishsale: Portrait of Elaine Lorys

© the artist. Image credit: Girton College, University of Cambridge

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Davis says: 'The subject of this portrait, Elaine Lorys, is a fishmonger who works in Newlyn, Cornwall. This painting was part of a series of works that I did for a recent exhibition in Birmingham. The Newlyn Artists Colony was established in the late nineteenth century and had strong connections with the Midlands, which is where I come from. In fact, it was the Birmingham artist Walter Langley who was the first to settle and paint seriously in the port, and it was this link that was my starting point for my project, as I wanted to try and record the changing face of Newlyn's fishing industry.'

Royal Society of Portrait Painters People's Portraits collection at Girton College, University of Cambridge

Cambridge

Title

Fishsale: Portrait of Elaine Lorys

Medium

oil on board

Measurements

H 45.7 x W 30.4 cm

Accession number

555

Acquisition method

on loan from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters

Work type

Painting

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