Newlyn, Fisherman, Henry Kitchen 1906
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Photo ref:
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A posed photograph of one of the local weather-beaten characters in his fisherman's oilskins.
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This is a photo of Henry Kitchen, my mother's grandfather, who was also one of Stanhope Forbes' favourite models. He was painted sitting in the rowing boat in Forbes' painting 'The Lighthouse', which now hangs in Manchester Art Gallery, and I have also read an account of a diary which he kept, when taken to London to be presented to Queen Victoria, on designing a new type of trammell net. According to my mother ...see more
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