Staithes group explained

The Staithes group or Staithes school was an artists' colony of over thirty 19th- and early 20th-century painters based in or visiting the North Yorkshire fishing village of Staithes, near Whitby.^[1] The Staithes Art Club held exhibitions in the village, and later Whitby, from 1901 to 1904 and for this period and a few years afterwards there was formal membership of the group, unlike with many such "colonies". Before and after this many of the artists exhibited with the larger Yorkshire Union of Artists (founded in 1887), whose exhibitions toured to various towns.

The group often worked en plein air in oil or in watercolour. Their subjects concentrated on the local landscape and coast, and the harsh working lives of the local people. Their styles were in the Realist but loosely handled manner found in the Newlyn school, the Manchester school of painters and (further afield and earlier) the Hague school, the Barbizon school, the Skagen Painters and many other artists of those years. Today such styles tend to be referred to as wider manifestations of French Impressionism,^[2] which probably had a very limited and indirect influence on most of the Staithes painters.

The group contained well-known artists such as Laura Knight, who lived and kept a studio in the village with her husband and fellow painter Harold Knight between 1898 and 1907, Frederick W. Jackson, Edward E. Anderson, Joseph R. Bagshawe, Thomas Barrett and James W. Booth. Others lived in the general region, or visited in the summer to paint.

Member artists

• Edward Enoch Anderson (1878–1961)^[3]
• John Atkinson (1863–1924)^[4]
• Joseph R. Bagshawe (1870–1909)^[3]
• Thomas Barrett (1848–1924)^[5]
• James William Booth (1867–1953)^[6]
• Owen Bowen (1873–1967)^[7]
• John Bowman (1872–1915)^[8]
• Andrew Charles Colley (1859–1910)^[9]
• Harold Edward Conway (b.1872)^[10]

• Lionel Townsend Crawshaw (1864–1949)^[11]
• Ernest Dade (1868–1936)^[12]
• William Gilbert Foster (1855–1906)^[13]
• Arthur A Friedenson (1872–1955)^[14]
• Sidney Valentine Gardner (1869–1957)^[15]
• Leandro Ramón Garrido (1869–1909)^[16]
• Ralph Hedley (1848–1913)^[17]
• Florence Adelina Hess (1891–1974)^[18]
• Rowland Henry Hill (1873–1952)^[19]
• Henry Silkstone Hopwood (1860–1914)^[20]
• John William Howey (1873–1938)^[21]
• John Spence Ingall (1850–1936)^[22]
• Frederick William Jackson (1859–1918)^[23]
• Isabella (Isa) Jobling (née Thompson) (1851–1926)^[24]
• Robert Jobling (1841–1923)^[25]
• Harold Knight (1874–1961)^[26]
• Dame Laura Knight (née Johnson) (1877–1970)^[27]
• Charles Hodge Mackie (1862–1920)^[28]
• Frank Henry Mason (1875–1965)^[29]
• Hannah Mayor (née Hoyland) (1871–1947)^[30]
• William Frederick Mayor (1865–1916)^[31]
• Paul Paul (1865–1937)^[32]
• Frederick Stuart Richardson (1855–1934)^[33]
• Ernest Higgins Rigg (1868–1947)^[34]
• Mark Senior (1862–1927)^[35]
• Albert George Stevens (1863–1925)^[36]
• Percy Morton Teasdale (1870–1961)^[37]
• Joseph Alfred Terry (1872–1939)^[38]
• Hirst Walker (1868–1957)^[39]
• James Watson (1851–1936)^{[40] [41]}
• John Wright (1857–1933)^[3]

Exhibitions

• Pannett Park Museum and Art Gallery, Whitby, North Yorkshire
• Brockfield Hall, Warthill, North Yorkshire^[42]

See also

• Cullercoats
• Newlyn School

External links

• Ark UK "Artists and places: Staithes Group, North Yorkshire", by David Saywell
• The Staithes Group – David Duggleby
• The Staithes Group (1894–1909) A Brief History...
• The Staithes Group Exhibition & Lecture 2015
• "Artists' colonies in Staithes and Runswick Bay c.1880–1914" PhD thesis by Robert Slater, 2010
• Paintings at Brockfield Hall

Notes and References

1. Book: Peter Phillips . The Staithes Group . Phillips & Sons . 1993 . 0-9521107-0-9 .
2. https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/11326684.raising-profile-northern-impressionist-artists/ "Raising the profile of Northern Impressionist artists"
3. Web site: The Staithes Group of Artists. David Duggleby. 14 April 2020.
4. Web site: Your Paintings – John Atkinson. Art UK. 14 April 2020.
5. Web site: Your Paintings – Thomas Barrett. Art UK. 8 April 2015.
6. Web site: Your Paintings – James W. Booth. Art UK. 8 April 2015.
7. Web site: Your Paintings – Owen Bowen. Art UK. 8 April 2015.
8. Web site: Your Paintings – John Bowman. Art UK. 8 April 2015.
9. Web site: Your Paintings – Andrew Charles Colley. Art UK. 14 April 2020.
10. Web site: Your Paintings – Edward Conway. Art UK. 14 April 2020.
11. Web site: Your Paintings – Lionel Townsend Crawshaw. Art UK. 14 April 2020.
12. Web site: Your Paintings – Ernest Dade. Art UK. 29 May 2013.
13. Web site: Your Paintings – William Gilbert Foster. Art UK. 14 April 2020.
14. Web site: Your Paintings – Arthur Friedenson. Art UK. 8 April 2015.
15. Web site: Your Paintings – Sidney Valentine Gardner. Art UK. 14 April 2020.
16. Web site: Your Paintings – Leandro R. Garrido . 8 April 2015 . Art UK.
17. Web site: Your Paintings – Ralph Hedley. Art UK. 14 April 2020.
18. Web site: Your Paintings – Florence Hess. Art UK. 14 April 2020.
19. Web site: Your Paintings – Rowland Henry Hill. Art UK. 14 April 2020.
20. Web site: Your Paintings – Henry S. Hopwood. Art UK. 8 April 2015.
21. Web site: Your Paintings – John W. Howey. Art UK. 8 April 2015.
22. Web site: John Spence Ingall (1850–1936) – Linen Designer, Traveller, Staithes Group Artist. Barnsley Art on Your Doorstep. 14 April 2020.
23. Web site: Your Paintings – Frederick W. Jackson. Art UK. 8 April 2015.
24. Web site: Your Paintings – Isabella Jobling. Art UK. 8 April 2015.
25. Web site: Your Paintings – Robert Jobling. Art UK. 8 April 2015.
26. Web site: Your Paintings – Harold Knight. Art UK. 8 April 2015.
27. Web site: Your Paintings – Dame Laura Knight. Art UK. 8 April 2015.
28. Web site: Your Paintings – Charles H. Mackie. Art UK. 8 April 2015.
29. Web site: Your Paintings – Frank H. Mason. https://web.archive.org/web/20150510093659/http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/frank-henry-mason. dead. 10 May 2015. BBC Online. 8 April 2015.
30. Web site: Your Paintings – Hannah Mayor. Art UK. 14 April 2020.
31. Web site: Your Paintings – Fred Mayor. Art UK. 8 April 2015.
32. Web site: Your Paintings – Paul Paul. Art UK. 14 April 2020.
33. Web site: Your Paintings – Frederick S. Richardson. Art UK. 8 April 2015.
34. Web site: Your Paintings – Ernest H. Rigg. Art UK. 8 April 2015.
35. Web site: Your Paintings – Mark Senior. Art UK. 8 April 2015.
36. Web site: Your Paintings – Albert G. Stevens. Art UK. 8 April 2015.
37. Web site: Your Paintings – Percy M. Teasdale. Art UK. 8 April 2015.
38. Web site: Your Paintings – Joseph A. Terry. Art UK. 8 April 2015.
39. Web site: Your Paintings – Hirst Walker. Art UK. 8 April 2015.
40. Web site: Your Paintings – James Watson. Art UK. 8 April 2015.
41. Web site: Saatchi Gallery – James Watson. Saatchi Gallery. 8 April 2015.
42. Web site: Brockfield Hall . Historic Houses . 5 October 2023.