WORCESTER City Art Gallery and Museum is for the first time bringing together a selection of works by renowned landscape artist Stanhope Forbes.

The Stanhope Forbes’ England exhibition explores both the beautiful costal scenes of Newlyn and the surrounding areas that Forbes is best known for, as well as his works depicting town and country life.

Born in Dublin in 1857, Stanhope Forbes studied in both London and Paris, but it was the villages and towns of England that captured his imagination. Forbes hunted out traditional life to record in paint, as well as documenting the growing rail network that linked these previously remote communities. The exhibition is a document of Forbes' own ideals about the British landscape and its people in a time of great social and technological change.

Stanhope Forbes' England will feature Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum’s visitor favourite Chadding on Mounts Bay, which was first exhibited in Worcester in 1902 as part of a group exhibition, after which the curators of the day made the astute decision to purchase the painting directly from Forbes. The painting now spends much of its time touring in international exhibitions and will make a welcome return for this exhibition.

The exhibition runs from March 21 to June 6 and is free. For more information contact the Art Gallery and Museum on 01905 25371 or visit museumsworcestershire.org.uk.