Norman Garstin was the intellectual mentor of the Newlyn School. He once said of the plein air principles of the Newlyn School 'Your work cannot really be good unless you have caught a cold doing it.'
He was born in County Clare, Ireland and raised by his grandparents. He began his career as an engineer and progressed to architecture before moving to Cape Town to become a diamond prospector. On his return to Ireland he studied art for two years under Charles Verlat in Antwerp and then for three years in Paris under Carolus Duran before travelling widely in Italy, Morocco, America, South Africa, Tangiers and Spain before finally settling in the West Country.
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The canvas is unlined and is on what is probably the original stretcher which is providing good support. There is a small patch to the reverse of the cavas, to the lower right of centre when viewed from the reverse. There are some small areas of paint shrinkage to the woman's top and skirt. Under UV light there is a small area of restoration corresponding to the patch on the reverse, probably to an old puncture. There are some areas of infilling to the paint shrinkage on the woman's top. A very other small scatterings of retouching in the foreground. The picture appears to have been cleaned in the past.