Showing Walter Langley: Pioneer of the Newlyn Art Colony by Roger Langley

Walter Langley (8 June 1852 - 21 March 1922) was an English painter and founder of the Newlyn School of plein air artists. Langley was a pioneer of the remarkable colony of artists drawn to the south west corner of Cornwall in the 1880's. He was also a chronicler of the simple everyday scene in Cornwall, in the Midlands, Brittany and Holland. This book is a full chronology of Langley's life, a meticulously prepared catalogue raisonne and comprehensive details of the artists's exhibitions and sales, make this an essential reference work for collectors, dealers and students of the art of the nineteenth/early twentieth centuries and of the Newlyn school in particular.