Marianne Stokes, nee Preindlesberger, met Adrian Stokes in Pont Aven, Brittany in 1883 and married the following year. Born in Austria, Marianne had studied in Munich and Paris. She visited Pont Aven, a poor isolated, rural community, to find, with many of her contemporaries, sources for a 'plein air' social realism, subject matter popularized by Jules Bastien Lepage and Jean Francois Millet.
Marianne and Adrian Stokes visited Cornwall in 1886 at the behest of Stanhope Forbes, founder of (showing 500 of 1185 characters). |
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