The Gentle Spirit of the Newlyn School: The Life of Ralph Todd In the soft, salt-misted atmosphere of late nineteenth-century Cornwall, a particular kind of magic was being captured on canvas by a group of artists known as the Newlyn School. Among these figures, Ralph Todd (1856–1932) occupied a space of quiet, persistent devotion to his craft. While history often remembers the titans of the movement with more critical rigor, Todd’s p…