Explorer Hanbury-Tenison comes closer to home for his taste in art
Alongside living with bushmen in Africa, visiting 33 native tribes in Brazil and riding the length of the Great Wall of China, the Cornish-based explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison (b.1936) also found time to pursue another passion – one much closer to home.
In 1974, he started collecting ‘en plein air’ pictures by the Cornish art colony known as the Newl…