Henry Martin POPE
Born in Birmingham. A Founder member of the Birmingham Art Circle with Walter LANGLEY, Edwin HARRIS, Phil Whiting, William Banks FORTESCUE, he also visited or lived in Newlyn. (Ref Langley, Note 8, p144) Studied under Edward WATSON, H LINES and Samuel LINES.
Roger Langley in his new work (2011) on Walter LANGLEY and the Birmingham artists' connections with Cornwall, offers an extensive section on Pope. Pope is known to have first visited Newlyn with Langley in 1880 and thereby becomes one of the earliest of West Cornish visitors. He is known to have submitted nine Newlyn subjects to the Birmingham Art Circle exhibitions and three to the RBSA.
media
Painter of landscape and rustic subjects in oil and watercolour
works and access
exhibitions
RBSA (290) from 1865; SS (5)
memberships
Birmingham Art Circle
Birmingham Easel Club
President, Clarendon Art Fellowship (for 11 years)
misc further info
references
T Cross The Shining Sands
Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn & West Cornwall;
Johnson & Greutzner
R Langley (1997) Walter Langley;
Langley R (2011) Walter Langley, From Birmingham to Newlyn Bristol: Sansom & Co. pp117-119 col pl: On the Cornish Moors (1880)
Wood Victorian Painters