The artist arrived in St Ives from Cheltenham, after studying art at both Wakefield and Doncaster Art Schools. In the 1890s he exhibited views of Lelant at the RA.
From 1903 to the end of his life he lived at Zareba on Trelohyan Hill, but travelled extensively, painting not only in the Cotswolds and Kent, but also abroad in France, Spain and Portugal. At the March Show Day in 1911 he exhibited A Bracing Breeze to a Gale it Grew, Westward as the Sun Went Down, and Portalegre, all in oils, working from Piazza Studios, St Ives.
Working locally with STISA, he showed three large canvases at Show Day in 1924, and from 1926 with NAG. His titles include: Cotswold Stream ( RA 1912), The Pool (1913), Low Tide on Bar, Evening on the South Downs (1924), October Mists in Berkshire (1924), The Pool Below the Hatch, Willow Herb and On the Great Ouse. Tovey comments on his fascination for Corfe Castle (Dorset) which repeatedly featured in his work. He was survived by his wife, also an artist member of STISA (no records), who died in 1947.
Julie Milton is a painter based in Coverack. She is a regular exhibitor at STISA open shows.
Howard Milton was born in London and was a student at Hammersmith School of Art under Ruskin Spear. After studying at the London College of Printing, he embarked on a career in graphic design. Milton's contribution to British design was recognised by a Prince Philip Designers award in 2008.
The artist now lives on the Roseland peninsula, where he has returned to painting, becoming part of the artist community in Portscatho, exhibiting at the New Gallery Portscatho.
He is noted for his equine commissions.
Neil Miners was born in Redruth. His family moved to Falmouth when he was a teenager. He studied at Falmouth School of Art under Jack Chalker, remaining in the town until 2007, when he moved to Truro.
Neil worked at the Harbour Masters Office in Falmouth until he turned to painting fulltime. A painter of seascapes, one of his favourite subjects was working boats.
His second wife, Wendy, was a steadfast supporter of his artistic career. He never fully recovered from her death in 2002, when his health began to deteriorate.
Miners was well respected for his extensive knowledge of Cornish artists.
Tony Minnion is a landscape painter working from Krowji Studios in Redruth.
Hampden Milton was born in the Cotswold village of Moreton-in-Marsh. The family then moved to Lancashire. Described by Tovey as a 'rolling stone' of an earlier era, he appears to have moved on a regular basis, his addresses being Manchester in 1891, Abergele in 1912, Beaumaris in 1914, Exmouth in 1917 and Mousehole in 1920.
While in Exmouth he was a regular exhibitor of Polperro scenes. By then a widower, he met his second wife, Ann. After their marriage in 1919, the couple moved to Mousehole, and then St Ives, where they lived at 13 Seaview Terrace.
Minton became a founder member of STISA in 1927, and on their Show Days he initially exhibited at Shore Studio. In the STISA Show Day of 1929 he exhibited three paintings of Perranuthnoe.
An oil painting on canvas of St Michael's Mount was offered for sale and illustrated in colour at Glennie's of Norwich in 1990.
A painting by Miskin, Clay Verge (1960) is part of the permanent collection of Cornwall Council.
Len Missen was born in Essex. He married Dorothy M Bergan in Fulham in 1947, and with her joined the Borough Bottega under David Bomberg the following year. In 1950 Missen moved to Cornwall, where he ran the Penzance Pottery alongside Anthony RICHARDS, until his death in a car accident at Long Rock near Penzance in 1955.
Relatives who have some of his pottery in the family, are eager to find the whereabouts of any of his other work, and the portrait of his wife Dorothy, which was in the family some years ago, but lost sight of at some point.
Listed as artists by Iris Green as living in Penzance in 1881. Mary Mitchell is listed in Johnson & Gruetzner as exhibiting from 1887-1912.
Alfred Mitchell was born in Colyton, Devon in 1861. He gave an address in Plymouth, Devon for RA exhibits (4). Westerly Breeze, Scilly Rocks was sold at NAG's fifth exhibition in 1896. (See Hardie 2010). In 1894 his sending-in address was Lipson, Plymouth, changing to Mullion, Cornwall in 1897 and Yelverton, Devon in 1904.
A recent correspondent writes that at the 1901 census, Mitchell (unmarried) was staying at Orielton Hall in Barmouth, Merionethshire, Wales, and asks if any paintings from this time might survive?
In May 2016, a Bristol correspondent wrote: Alfred Mitchell was the brother of my maternal great-grandmother. He died in 1948 and I have a number of his paintings of Dartmoor/Cornwall which I have inherited from my mother and others within the Harris family, to which he was very close.
A further correspondent and descendant has been in touch (2020) to tell us of 15 paintings which he inherited from the widow of the artist's nephew. The Royal Academy has advised him that one of Alfred Mitchell's works, Two-Masted Brig is part of the National Collection and can be seen online at: http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/two-masted-brig-82164.
She moved from Amersham (1922) to Chesham Bois in 1929, but from 1930 a large proportion of her exhibits were of Cornish scenes. In 1936, she lived at Blomfield Road in London, a few doors away from Dorothea SHARP and Marcella SMITH, and continued to visit Cornwall regularly. She may have joined Sharp and Smith in St Ives in 1939 at the outbreak of the Second World War, but returned to London.
Edith Mitchell exhibited at the Goupil Gallery, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, the London Salon, the Royal Academy, Royal Society of British Artists and Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours.
She died at the Manor Nursing Home, Lelant, near St Ives.
Philip Mitchell was born in Devonport in 1814 and baptised at Stoke Damerel on 14th February 1815, the son of Thomas and Mary. At the age of fourteen he went to live in Falmouth where he made the acquaintance of J G PHILP.
He married Louisa Vavasour in Truro in 1838 and the Census of 1841 finds the 27 year old Artist living at Lemon Villa in Truro. Soon after the birth of his third daughter in 1845 the family moved to Plymouth where he lived for the rest of his life apart from his frequent sketching tours through Cornwall and as far a field as Derbyshire.
He exhibited first in 1846 at the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society Annual Exhibition, where he won a Bronze Medal for his watercolour View of Falmouth Harbour, and a First Class prize for his chalk drawing of Roche Rocks. Wood lists a prolific sum of 338 works shown by this artist at the NWS (that became the RI in 1863) whereas other sources chart this at 114 (J&G). He made an unsuccessful attempt to join NWS in 1853 but became an Associate a year later and a Full Member in 1879.
He was a member of Plymouth Sketching Club and a friend of fellow members, N CONDY Jnr. and Samuel COOK. The Census record him at various addresses in Plymouth before he eventually settled at 4 Bedford Terrace where he lived for over twenty years until his death at the age of 81 in 1896.
A painting, 'Simon Bolivar' Venezuela Barque, Falmouth Tall Ships 2001 (acrylic on board, 40 x 50), by this artist, is in art collection of the Royal Cornwall Hospital.
Born in Wealdstone, Middlesex, he was brought up in Swansea and went to evening classes at Swansea College of Art in 1930. He moved to Barnoon, St Ives to help an aunt renovate a cottage in 1930, and opened a market garden in 1938. At Geevor Mine he also worked as a tin miner between 1942 and 1945, then a fisherman from 1946 to 1948.
His interest in modern art was aroused by meeting Bernard LEACH and Adrian STOKES when they were in the Home Guard during the War. With his brother Endell he organised the first show of modern art in St Ives at the Castle Inn. Initially he tried his hand as a painter of land and seascapes. But, when he became assistant to Barbara HEPWORTH in 1949, he first started to sculpt in wood and eventually turned to bronze, the work for which he became best known. He was assistant to Hepworth from 1949 to 1959. He began to sculpt in bronze in 1959.
Mitchell was a much loved and respected friend to many artists. For a great many years he shared a studio with the painter John WELLS.
Sheila Mitchell's work is influenced by the elements. She states: 'Sometimes a line of poetry or a news headline inspires my artwork.' A recent project is a living willow labyrinth which started as a drawing in the snow.
Brian Mitchell was born in St Ives and studied at the Institute of Education at London University in the early 1960s. After returning to Cornwall he held the post of chairman of STISA for 10 years.
Co-organiser with colleague, Annie METCALFE, of the Open Art exhibition that launched the 4th annual Newlyn Arts Festival at NAG in November 2010. John works from the Trewarveneth Studios at Newlyn and is an abstract artist-sculptor. His work has been shown at numerous exhibitions not only within the UK but also internationally. He has held major fellowships at Leeds University and Cardiff College of Art.
Lewis Mitchell was born in Penzance.
WMN in a review (2006) commented that 'He is self-taught, and his landscape paintings are pure colour with an eye for detail, with the paint carefully applied in an obsessive manner. His pictures are often fantastical, with ships, aeroplanes and balloons passing through the Cornish landscape.'
His work has been exhibited at a number of galleries in Cornwall and further afield. He was represented by David Cross Gallery in Bristol for 15 years. His paintings have also been shown in Denmark and France.
John Mogford was born in London of a Devonshire family. He studied at the Government School of Art & Design at Somerset House and married a daughter of the painter Francis Danby. He exhibited frequently in London at the Royal Academy between 1846 and 1881, the British Institution, the Society of British Arts, the New Watercolour Society, and the Grosvenor Gallery.
The artist J K Moir exhibited at NAG in July and December of 1926. His wife, Jessica, is also listed as an artist, though no titles are listed for her in Cornwall. Their address in 1927 was in Sancreed, near Penzance.
Originally Scottish, she came from Warminster to Cornwall in 1928 as a pupil of the FORBES SCHOOL and a student of the Penzance School of Art. On the basis of an initial submission, one of her works was accepted by the RA. She worked particularly on miniatures of children but also painted one of Mrs Thurstan Lane, Mayoress of Penzance 1950-51, accepted by the RA. She lived in Mousehole, and remained active in the NSA until she died.