Frederick Newcome

Education

He studied at the Mount Street School of Art under John Finnie.

Career

Newcome"s earliest sketching-ground was at Bettws-y-Coed in Wales, and he afterwards worked in Scotland, Warwickshire, Devonshire and the Lake District. The last was his favourite, and in 1880 he made Keswick, Cumbria his headquarters, before moving to Coniston, Lancashire where he died in 1894. He exhibited prolifically at all the major exhibitions including:

The Royal Society of Artists, Birmingham

Manchester City Art Gallery

The Royal Academy, London

The Royal Scottish Academy.

Achievements

• Frederick received his fair share of recognition during his lifetime, the famous art critic and pre-raphaelite champion John Ruskin applauded Newcome"s painting The Head of a Highland Glen exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1875, exclaiming "the best study of torrent, including distant and near water, that I find in the rooms" before adding "the rest of this mountain scene by Mr. Newcome is also carefully studied, and very right and good.".