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Lot 59

John Noble Barlow
(British, 1861-1917)
Midnight toilers, St Ives

26 March 2025, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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John Noble Barlow (British, 1861-1917)

Midnight toilers, St Ives
signed and dated 'J.Noble Barlow/1899' (lower left)
oil on canvas
76.5 x 152.6cm (30 1/8 x 60 1/16in).

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Provenance
Acquired by the family of the present owner circa 1910 and thence by descent.
Private collection, UK.

John Noble Barlow is certainly best known for his depictions of the Cornish landscape, sea and life. However, his artistic education and early career took him much further afield. He studied for two years in Paris at the Academie Julian under Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Paul Louis Delance and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant followed by spells in Belgium and New York. The latter clearly had a great influence on him as he later emigrated to the United States, becoming a citizen in 1887.

Living in Providence, Rhode Island, Barlow was a member of the Providence Art Club and exhibited at the National Academy of Design and the Art Institute of Chicago. On returning to the UK and settling in St Ives in the early 1890s he began to exhibit at the Royal Academy in 1893. His Barnoon Terrace residence in St Ives provided the perfect place from which to observe the local fisherman going about their work at all hours.

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