page_title: Robert Bevan
section_title: Last years
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Bevan / Last years
caption_attribution_description: English: Mare and Foal Licensing Artwork by Robert Bevan (1865-1925).
context_page_description: Robert Polhill Bevan was a British painter, draughtsman and lithographer. He was a founding member of the Camden Town Group, the London Group, and the Cumberland Market Group.
context_section_description: Bevan spent most of his summers painting. Until the First World War this was usually at family homes in Poland or Sussex. However, at about this time, he was first invited down to the Blackdown Hills on the Devon-Somerset border as a guest of landowner and amateur artist Harold Harrison. Until the end of his life Bevan continued to paint in the Bolham valley and nearby Luppitt his angular style sitting well with the strong patterning of the landscape.
  His London street scenes, which were largely in the area of St John's Wood and Belsize Park, were generally more favourably reviewed than his landscapes.
  After a break of nearly twenty years Bevan returned to lithography. Whilst his earlier prints recall landscapes by Van Gogh the later works are more in the nature of tone translations of oil paintings. "In either instance they are technically superb and notable additions to English lithography of the period."
  In 1922 he was elected to the New English Art Club.
  Bevan died on 8 July 1925, following an operation for stomach cancer.
caption: Mare and Foal, 1917
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