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JAMES STARK (1794-1859)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 798 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES STARK (1794-1859)  ,
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British painter, was born in Norwich, and as he showed strong
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artistic inclinations early in
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life was, at the age of seventeen, articled to John Crome for three years . He was elected in 1812 a member of the Norwich Society, to the exhibitions of which he had already contributed; but in 1817 he migrated to
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London and entered the Royal Academy
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Schools . He soon returned to Norwich and did not finally settle in the metropolis until 1830, though he was meanwhile a
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regular contributor to the British Institution and Suffolk Street Galleries . In 184o he moved to Windsor, but after an
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interval of some years went back to London, where he died in 1859 . Between 1831 and 1859 most of his pictures were shown at the Royal Academy, though he still continued to exhibit occasionally in other galleries . He undertook in 1827 the publication of a
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work on The Scenery of the Rivers of Norfolk, which was completed seven years later; the illustrations he prepared for it have much topographical and artistic
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interest and show well the better qualities of his work . In his pictures the influence of Crome is plainly perceptible, and there is evidence also of his study of the Dutch landscape-painters; but he had little of Crome's largeness and power and his
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works charm rather by their gentle truth and quietness of manner than by their robustness of view or by their decisiveness of execution . There is one picture by him, " The Valley of the Yare," in the
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National Gallery of British
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Art .

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