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JOSEPH STANNARD (1796-1830)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 782 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH See also:STANNARD (1796-1830)  , See also:British painter, was See also:born in See also:Norwich . He there received some training in See also:art from See also:Robert Ladbrooke, the See also:brother-in-See also:law of See also:Crome, and he also visited See also:Holland and studied the pictures of the Dutch masters . His See also:short See also:life—he died when he was See also:thirty-four—was spent in his native See also:town, and he contributed to the exhibitions of the Norwich Society, of which he was a member, and also occasionally showed his See also:work in See also:London . Most of his pictures represent See also:coast subjects or See also:river scenes, but he had some reputation as a portrait-painter also, and in this See also:branch of practice he achieved locally a See also:fair measure of success . In his large picture, " The See also:Annual See also:Water Frolic at See also:Thorpe," he combined landscape with See also:portraiture . He attained no little skill as an etcher and published several plates which have a considerable degree of merit .

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