The Norwich School of Painters 1803-1833

Andrew Hemingway

"67 illustrations, 27 in colour

There are not many instances in the history of British art when a group of provincial painters has formed a school; the Norwich School of the early nineteenth century is certainly the best known. But what in fact was it and what was the social and intellectual atmosphere which gave it its collective spirit ? This book seeks to answer these questions and to survey the work of the most accomplished of these painters.

The School's two main figures were John Sell Cotman, one of the most brilliant of British watercolourists, and John Crome, whose landscapes in oil w ere surpassed only by those of Turner and Constable. They also had a number of friends and followers, who found inspiration in the beautiful Norfolk countryside. The paintings of some of these—Robert Ladbrooke, John Thirtle, James Stark, George Vincent and Joseph Stannard—have not previously been illustrated as often as they clearly deserve.

Although a number of significant painters worked in the city after the collapse of the Norwich Society of Artists in 1833, this book specifically » concentrates on the period of the Society's existence, the heyday of Norwich art, when the sense of a school was at its strongest.

Andrew Hemingway, who teaches the history of art at Ealing College of Higher Education, was brought up in East Anglia. The Norwich School has for some time been one of his special interests.

Jacket illustration: Detail from Yarmouth Water Frolic by John Berney Crome"

 

Phaidon 1979, 1. painos. Kovakantinen. Englanninkielinen.

 

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