tregenzas and the newlyn artists (2)

In 2003 the BBC Radio 4 programme Home Truths reported the story of Joseph Tregenza (b.1917) and a painting of him with his mother by Harold Harvey.

After the best part of 80 years Joseph was reunited with the picture - now part of the national gallery of Wales collection. The home truths story is here and the BBC Wales version here.

Separately, Paul Tregenza recalls in a letter to my father of his grandfather (Joseph, b 1885) having a painting by Harold Harvey
 “of my grandmother as a young woman in one of my grandfather’s fields of narcissus in Newlyn. she would have been in charge of the picker-girls. My grandfather did not think much of ‘they painters’ as the painting was in lieu of rent (he had similar trouble with Stanhope-Forbes).”
Unfortunately the picture was sold and has not been traced.

Paul Tregenza is the son of the Joseph Tregenza (junior) in the home truths story so Harold Harvey must have done a fair amount of painting for Joseph Tregenza (senior) to pay his rent.

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