Stanhope Alexander Forbes: A Cornish Visionary of the Late Victorian Era Born in Dublin in 1857, Stanhope Alexander Forbes’s artistic journey was a testament to perseverance and a deep connection to the natural world. His early life, marked by a move to England and an education nurtured by his art-enthusiastic father, laid the foundation for a career that would ultimately establish him as one of the leading landscape painters of the late Victorian era, particularly within the vibrant Cornish art colony. Forbes’s work is characterized by a remarkable blend of realism and romanticism, capturin…