Martin Francis Gwilt Jolley 1859-1917, In The Streets Of Capri, Oil On Canvas, Ca. 1900.

MF Gwilt Jolley, In the Streets of Capri, oil on canvas, ca. 1900. Martin Francis Gwilt Jolley was born on 9 October 1859 in Croydon, the son of George Martin Guise Jolley and Adeline Jolley. He was a pupil of Jules Lefebvre and Benjamin Constant at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1887 to 1916. His work includes landscapes and figure paintings, with views of Cornwall and continental Europe. A member of the Étaples school of painters, he painted several paintings depicting the seaside resort of Paris-Plage, which were exhibited in the Touquet-Paris-Plage museum when it opened in 1932. His painting, Steam Train in Carbis Bay, is one of many notable works in the exhibition at Penlee House, Penzance, Cornwall: Dawn of a Colony: Lyrical Light (St. Ives 1889-1914), from 14 June to 13 September 2008.