The Bewick Club was conceived by members of the Newcastle Life School in the early 1880s. It was named in honour of Thomas Bewick, the Newcastle engraver (1753 - 1828).Members of the Bewick Club painted in a range of differing styles, and the ones whose work is of interest to us are those who paint in the impressionist style favoured by Staithes artists. A number of members of the Bewick Club were also members of the Staithes Group and/or the Cullercoats Colony. The American artist, Winslow Homer, worked with the Cullercoats artists in a similar style in 1881, staying in the village for eighteen months. His influence can be seen in Robert and Isa Jobling's fine paintings of fishergirls. Although their style owes more to Staithes Impressionism, subject matter and composition owe a lot to Homer. The three girls in Robert Jobling's conidences could well be the same ones portrayed in many of Homer's Cullercoates paintings - I think Maggie Storey and Belle Jefferson are the left and centre figures. The falling pound makes Staithes and Cullercoates paintings an even better buy for American collectors.
We stock only pictures by members of the Club and the Colony who worked in a plein-air, Impressionist style.
Work in stock at present includes examples by: John Atkinson, Ralph Hedley, Thomas Swift Hutton, Isa Jobling (nee Thompson) Robert Jobling and John Falconar Slater.
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John Falconar Slater was a Northumbrian artist who exhibited prolifically in his own area. Initially, however, he worked as a bookeeper for his father's corn mill and then ran a store in the diamond fields of South Africa before turning to art as a career. He was a member of the Bewick Club and President of the North East Art Club, based in Whitley Bay, and also a member of the Cullercoats Colony. He could be one of the best Northern Impressionist artists, and was expert at depicting the many moods of the North Sea. The last twelve years of his life were spent in Cullercoats.
Exhibited: L. 5, M. 1, R.A. 22 and widely on Tyneside.