{{Short description|Artists' colony in North Yorkshire, England}} {{use British English|date=April 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} [[File:Robert Jobling (1841-1923) - Anxious Times - TWCMS , B652 - Laing Art Gallery.jpg|thumb|upright|Robert Jobling (1841–1923), ''Anxious Times'', Laing Art Gallery]]

The '''Staithes group''' or '''Staithes school''' was an artists' colony of over thirty 19th- and early 20th-century painters based in or visiting the North Yorkshire fishing village of Staithes, near Whitby.<ref name="isbn0-9521107-0-9">{{cite book |author=Peter Phillips |title=The Staithes Group |publisher=Phillips & Sons |year=1993 |isbn=0-9521107-0-9 }}</ref> The Staithes Art Club held exhibitions in the village, and later Whitby, from 1901 to 1904 and for this period and a few years afterwards there was formal membership of the group, unlike with many such "colonies". Before and after this many of the artists exhibited with the larger Yorkshire Union of Artists (founded in 1887), whose exhibitions toured to various towns.

The group often worked ''en plein air'' in oil or in watercolour. Their subjects concentrated on the local landscape and coast, and the harsh working lives of the local people. Their styles were in the Realist but loosely handled manner found in the Newlyn school, the Manchester school of painters and (further afield and earlier) the Hague school, the Barbizon school, the Skagen Painters and many other artists of those years. Today such styles tend to be referred to as wider manifestations of French Impressionism,<ref>[https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/11326684.raising-profile-northern-impressionist-artists/ "Raising the profile of Northern Impressionist artists"], 8th July 2014, ''Northern Echo''</ref> which probably had a very limited and indirect influence on most of the Staithes painters.

The group contained well-known artists such as Laura Knight, who lived and kept a studio in the village with her husband and fellow painter Harold Knight between 1898 and 1907, Frederick W. Jackson, Edward E. Anderson, Joseph R. Bagshawe, Thomas Barrett and James W. Booth. Others lived in the general region, or visited in the summer to paint.

==Member artists== [[File:Ernest Dade - Crabbing Coble off Filey Brigg, North Yorkshire.jpg|thumb|Ernest Dade, ''Crabbing Coble off Filey Brigg, North Yorkshire'']] *Edward Enoch Anderson (1878–1961)<ref name="JoW1">{{cite web|url=https://www.davidduggleby.com/departments/staithes-group.aspx/|title=The Staithes Group of Artists|work=David Duggleby|access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref> *John Atkinson (1863–1924)<ref name="JA1">{{cite web|url=https://www.artuk.org/discover/artists/atkinson-ii-john-18631924|title=Your Paintings – John Atkinson|work=Art UK|access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref> *Joseph R. Bagshawe (1870–1909)<ref name="JoW1"/> *Thomas Barrett (1848–1924)<ref name="TB1">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/barrett-thomas-18451924|title=Your Paintings – Thomas Barrett|work=Art UK|access-date=8 April 2015}}</ref> *James William Booth (1867–1953)<ref name="JWB1">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/booth-james-william-18671953|title=Your Paintings – James W. Booth|work=Art UK|access-date=8 April 2015}}</ref> *Owen Bowen (1873–1967)<ref name="OB1">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/bowen-owen-18731967|title=Your Paintings – Owen Bowen|work=Art UK|access-date=8 April 2015}}</ref> *John Bowman (1872–1915)<ref name="JB1">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/bowman-john-18721915|title=Your Paintings – John Bowman|work=Art UK|access-date=8 April 2015}}</ref> *Andrew Charles Colley (1859–1910)<ref name="ACC1">{{cite web|url=https://www.artuk.org/discover/artists/colley-andrew-18591910|title=Your Paintings – Andrew Charles Colley|work=Art UK|access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref> *Harold Edward Conway (b.1872)<ref name="HEC1">{{cite web|url=https://www.artuk.org/discover/artists/conway-edward-b-1872|title=Your Paintings – Edward Conway|work=Art UK|access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref> thumb|upright|''Staithes'' by Charles Gregory, c.&nbsp;1920 *Lionel Townsend Crawshaw (1864–1949)<ref name="LTC1">{{cite web|url=https://www.artuk.org/discover/artists/crawshaw-lionel-townsend-18641949|title=Your Paintings – Lionel Townsend Crawshaw|work=Art UK|access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref> *Ernest Dade (1868–1936)<ref name="YP1">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/dade-ernest-18681936|title=Your Paintings – Ernest Dade|work=Art UK|access-date=29 May 2013}}</ref> *William Gilbert Foster (1855–1906)<ref name="WGF1">{{cite web|url=https://www.artuk.org/discover/artists/foster-william-gilbert-18551906|title=Your Paintings – William Gilbert Foster|work=Art UK|access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref> *Arthur A Friedenson (1872–1955)<ref name="AF1">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/friedenson-arthur-a-18721955|title=Your Paintings – Arthur Friedenson|work=Art UK|access-date=8 April 2015}}</ref> *Sidney Valentine Gardner (1869–1957)<ref name="SVG1">{{cite web|url=https://www.artuk.org/discover/artists/gardner-sidney-valentine-18691957|title=Your Paintings – Sidney Valentine Gardner|work=Art UK|access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref> *Leandro Ramón Garrido (1869–1909)<ref name="LRG1">{{cite web |title=Your Paintings – Leandro R. Garrido |url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/garrido-leandro-ramon-18681909 |access-date=8 April 2015 |work=Art UK}}</ref> *Ralph Hedley (1848–1913)<ref name="RH1">{{cite web|url=https://www.artuk.org/discover/artists/hedley-ralph-18481913|title=Your Paintings – Ralph Hedley|work=Art UK|access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref> *Florence Adelina Hess (1891–1974)<ref name="FAH1">{{cite web|url=https://www.artuk.org/discover/artists/hess-florence-18911974|title=Your Paintings – Florence Hess|work=Art UK|access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref> *Rowland Henry Hill (1873–1952)<ref name="RHH1">{{cite web|url=https://www.artuk.org/discover/artists/hill-rowland-henry-18731952|title=Your Paintings – Rowland Henry Hill|work=Art UK|access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref> *Henry Silkstone Hopwood (1860–1914)<ref name="HSH1">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/hopwood-henry-silkstone-18601914|title=Your Paintings – Henry S. Hopwood|work=Art UK|access-date=8 April 2015}}</ref> *John William Howey (1873–1938)<ref name="JWH1">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/howey-john-william-18731938|title=Your Paintings – John W. Howey|work=Art UK|access-date=8 April 2015}}</ref> *John Spence Ingall (1850–1936)<ref name="JSI1">{{cite web|url=https://barnsleyartonyourdoorstep.org.uk/book/10-John-Spence-Ingall.pdf|title=John Spence Ingall (1850–1936) – Linen Designer, Traveller, Staithes Group Artist|work=Barnsley Art on Your Doorstep|access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref> *Frederick William Jackson (1859–1918)<ref name="FWJ1">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/jackson-frederick-william-18591918|title=Your Paintings – Frederick W. Jackson|work=Art UK|access-date=8 April 2015}}</ref> *Isabella (Isa) Jobling (née Thompson) (1851–1926)<ref name="IJ1">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/jobling-isabella-18511926|title=Your Paintings – Isabella Jobling|work=Art UK|access-date=8 April 2015}}</ref> *Robert Jobling (1841–1923)<ref name="RJ1">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/jobling-robert-18411923|title=Your Paintings – Robert Jobling|work=Art UK|access-date=8 April 2015}}</ref> *Harold Knight (1874–1961)<ref name="HK1">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/knight-harold-18741961|title=Your Paintings – Harold Knight|work=Art UK|access-date=8 April 2015}}</ref> *Dame Laura Knight (née Johnson) (1877–1970)<ref name="DLK1">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/knight-laura-18771970|title=Your Paintings – Dame Laura Knight|work=Art UK|access-date=8 April 2015}}</ref> *Charles Hodge Mackie (1862–1920)<ref name="CHM1">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/mackie-charles-hodge-18621920|title=Your Paintings – Charles H. Mackie|work=Art UK|access-date=8 April 2015}}</ref> *Frank Henry Mason (1875–1965)<ref name="FHAM1">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/frank-henry-mason|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150510093659/http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/frank-henry-mason|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 May 2015|title=Your Paintings – Frank H. Mason|work=BBC Online|access-date=8 April 2015}}</ref> *Hannah Mayor (née Hoyland) (1871–1947)<ref name="HM1">{{cite web|url=https://www.artuk.org/discover/artists/mayor-hannah-18711947|title=Your Paintings – Hannah Mayor|work=Art UK|access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref> *William Frederick Mayor (1865–1916)<ref name="FWM1">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/mayor-fred-18651916|title=Your Paintings – Fred Mayor|work=Art UK|access-date=8 April 2015}}</ref> *Paul Paul (1865–1937)<ref name="PP1">{{cite web|url=https://www.artuk.org/discover/artists/paul-paul-18651937|title=Your Paintings – Paul Paul|work=Art UK|access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref> *Frederick Stuart Richardson (1855–1934)<ref name="FSR1">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/richardson-frederick-stuart-18551934|title=Your Paintings – Frederick S. Richardson|work=Art UK|access-date=8 April 2015}}</ref> *Ernest Higgins Rigg (1868–1947)<ref name="EHR1">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/rigg-ernest-higgins-18681947|title=Your Paintings – Ernest H. Rigg|work=Art UK|access-date=8 April 2015}}</ref> *Mark Senior (1862–1927)<ref name="MS1">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/senior-mark-18641927|title=Your Paintings – Mark Senior|work=Art UK|access-date=8 April 2015}}</ref> *Albert George Stevens (1863–1925)<ref name="AGS1">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/stevens-albert-george-18631927|title=Your Paintings – Albert G. Stevens|work=Art UK|access-date=8 April 2015}}</ref> *Percy Morton Teasdale (1870–1961)<ref name="PMT1">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/teasdale-percy-morton-18701961|title=Your Paintings – Percy M. Teasdale|work=Art UK|access-date=8 April 2015}}</ref> *Joseph Alfred Terry (1872–1939)<ref name="JAT1">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/terry-joseph-alfred-18721939|title=Your Paintings – Joseph A. Terry|work=Art UK|access-date=8 April 2015}}</ref> *Hirst Walker (1868–1957)<ref name="HW1">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/walker-hirst-18681957|title=Your Paintings – Hirst Walker|work=Art UK|access-date=8 April 2015}}</ref> *James Watson (1851–1936)<ref name="JaW1">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/watson-james-18511936|title=Your Paintings – James Watson|work=Art UK|access-date=8 April 2015}}</ref><ref name="JaW2">{{cite web|url=http://www.saatchigallery.com/dealers_galleries/InfoAll/summary/dg_id/15055|title=Saatchi Gallery – James Watson|work=Saatchi Gallery|access-date=8 April 2015}}</ref> *John Wright (1857–1933)<ref name="JoW1"/>

==Exhibitions== *Pannett Park Museum and Art Gallery, Whitby, North Yorkshire *Brockfield Hall, Warthill, North Yorkshire<ref>{{cite web |title=Brockfield Hall |url=https://www.historichouses.org/house/brockfield-hall/visit/ |website=Historic Houses |access-date=5 October 2023}}</ref>

==See also== *Cullercoats *Newlyn School

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [https://artuk.org/discover/curations/artists-and-places-staithes-group-north-yorkshire Ark UK] "Artists and places: Staithes Group, North Yorkshire", by David Saywell * [https://www.davidduggleby.com/departments/staithes-group.aspx/ The Staithes Group – David Duggleby] * [http://www.brockfieldhall.co.uk/staithes_group_pictures_brief_history.htm The Staithes Group (1894–1909) A Brief History...] * [http://www.staithesfestival.com/tom-rosamund-jordan-exhibition-lecture/ The Staithes Group Exhibition & Lecture 2015] * [https://lra.le.ac.uk/bitstream/2381/10303/3/2011SlaterRPhD.pdf/ "Artists' colonies in Staithes and Runswick Bay c.1880–1914" PhD thesis by Robert Slater, 2010] * [https://www.brockfieldhall.co.uk/gallery_staithes_group_pictures.htm Paintings at Brockfield Hall]

Category:English artist groups and collectives Category:19th-century English painters Category:Culture in North Yorkshire Category:Staithes