Cornish art collection featuring fishing lives returns home for exhibition.

This painting shows a tired family on a horse and cart on a dark, winding country lane.

The Bowerman Collection

Stanhope Forbes' work Lighting Up Time is included in the exhibtion

Paintings depicting life in Cornwall's fishing and rural communities more than a century ago have gone on display.

The exhibition brings together 40 works from the acclaimed Bowerman Collection of Newlyn School art, a movement of artists who settled in west Cornwall in the late 19th Century.

The works have returned to Cornwall before embarking on a national tour and will be displayed at the Penlee House Gallery and Museum in Penzance until January.

Curator Alison Bevan said the work "captures the real lives and characters of this remote fishing community".

Bevan said the exhibition also highlighted artists who formed what she described as a second flowering of the colony at the turn of the 20th Century.

"With their more vibrant palette but equal passion for painting from life, this second generation re-energised Newlyn as a vibrant artistic hub, revelling in West Cornwall's sparkling light," she said.

Paintings depicting life in Cornwall's fishing and rural communities more than a century ago have gone on display. The exhibition brings together 40 works from the acclaimed Bowerman Collection of Newlyn School art, a movement of artists who settled in west Cornwall in the late 19th Century.

The works have returned to Cornwall before embarking on a national tour and will be displayed at the Penlee House Gallery and Museum in Penzance until January. Curator Alison Bevan said the work "captures the real lives and characters of this remote fishing community". Bevan said the exhibition also highlighted artists who formed what she described as a second flowering of the colony at the turn of the 20th Century.

"With their more vibrant palette but equal passion for painting from life, this second generation re-energised Newlyn as a vibrant artistic hub, revelling in West Cornwall's sparkling light," she said.

The exhibition runs until 9 January before the collection begins a two-year tour of venues across England.