{"id":489786,"date":"2026-03-22T19:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T19:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/489786\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T19:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T19:59:14","slug":"penlee-house-buys-walter-langley-cornish-fisherfolk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/489786\/","title":{"rendered":"Penlee House buys Walter Langley Cornish Fisherfolk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Investigations discovered the painting was sold in 1910 for \u00a3100 and after the owner died, it was given to a second owner who bequeathed it to Godalming Parish Council, a forerunner of Waverley Borough Council in 1920.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In July, council leaders offered Penlee Gallery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cq5qqjj2we6o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the opportunity to buy the painting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Herbert said: &#8220;We are grateful to Waverley Borough Council for their considered decision to offer the painting through a private treaty sale, rather than releasing it to the uncertainties of auction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She explained it was because Langley had come from a poor, working-class background in Birmingham that he had been drawn to depicting the common hardships and tragedies that took place in Newlyn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The name Newlyn School was used to describe a colony of artists based in or near the harbour village from the 1880s until the early 20th Century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The gallery bought the painting with support from the Arts Council England, the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund, Art Fund and The Friends of Penlee House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigations discovered the painting was sold in 1910 for \u00a3100 and after the owner died, it was given&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-489786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}