Stanhope Alexander Forbes (November 18, 1857 – March 2, 1947) was an artist and member of the influential Newlyn school of painters. Forbes was born in Dublin. He studied art at the Lambeth School of Art, then in Paris under Leon Bonnat. Forbes went to Brittany in 1881 with fellow artist La Thangue. In France he came into contact with the new en plein air painters. He moved to Newlyn in Cornwall in 1884, and soon became a leading figure in the growing colony of artists. Well into the 1930s, he was still often to be seen painting en plein air, surrounded by curious local children. He died in 1947, a few months short of his ninetieth birthday.
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