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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 516 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NEWLYN , a See also:

village in the St Ives See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Cornwall, See also:England, on the See also:shore of See also:Mount's See also:Bay, r m. S.W. of See also:Penzance. It is a small fishing See also:port, with narrow paved lanes and old-fashioned cottages. Near the See also:parish See also:church of St See also:Peter stands an See also:ancient See also:cross of See also:granite, discovered in a See also:field See also:close by. The See also:harbour, one of the safest for small See also:craft in the See also:west See also:country, is sheltered by two See also:long and massive See also:stone piers. A more ancient See also:pier, originally constructed in the reign of See also:Henry VI., was renewed in that of See also:James I. See also:Tin See also:mining and smelting have been largely carried on in the neighbourhood, and several galleries were worked far under the See also:sea. The See also:principal See also:modern See also:industry, however, is fishing, especially for See also:pilchard. The picturesque See also:appearance of the village, with its quays and little harbour, and the grandeur of the cliffs and moorland scenery towards See also:Land's End, make Newlyn an attractive spot. Between 188o and 1890 an See also:artistic coterie See also:grew up here, the leaders of which were See also:Edwin See also:Harris, See also:Walter See also:Langley, Fred See also:Hall, See also:Frank Bramley, T. C. Gotch, Mr and Mrs See also:Stanhope See also:Forbes, See also:Chevalier See also:Taylor and H.

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Tuke. The earlier artists at Newlyn were said to have selected it as their centre, because a greyness in the See also:atmosphere helped their depiction of subtleties in See also:tone, See also:part of their creed being subordination of See also:colour to tone-gradation. In later times, the See also:element of a See also:common ideal tended to disappear, but the See also:interest of the " Newlyn school " attracted a See also:regular See also:art-See also:colony, who in various ways assimilated and expressed the picturesque influences of the See also:place (see See also:PAINTING: See also:Recent See also:British). There is a permanent Art See also:Gallery, containing examples of the See also:work of the Newlyn artists. Newlyn See also:ward in the See also:urban See also:district of See also:PAUL (pop.

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