Arthur Wilde PARSONS

Arthur Wilde PARSONS RWS
1854
1931

A native of Bristol and son of Dr John Parsons, GP, he visited Cornwall on working holidays to see his brother, the vicar of Crantock, near Newquay. In 1908 the artist became a founder-member of the Bristol Savages.

A painting by Parsons of Polperro was hung at the Bristol Fine Art Gallery in 1890.

media

Painter in oils and watercolour of seascapes and marine subjects

works and access

Works include: Crantock Cornwall, Rocky beach (1903); Rocky ForeshoreThree Masted Sailing Vessels before the harbour and town of Penzance; Back of the Post Office, Crantock (1920); The Old Fish Cellars, Newquay (1920)

memberships

RWS

references

Brooke-Hart

Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn & West Cornwall p339

W H Lane Fine Art; 

Tovey, David (2021) Polperro - Cornwall's Forgotten Art Centre - Volume One - Pre-1920, Wilson Books

 Wood Victorian Painters;