See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES See also:STARK (1794-1859)
, See also:British painter, was See also:born in See also:Norwich, and as he showed strong See also:artistic inclinations See also:early in See also:life was, at the See also:age of seventeen, articled to See also:John See also: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 See also:London and entered the Royal See also:Academy See also:Schools
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He soon returned to Norwich and did not finally See also:settle in the See also:metropolis until 1830, though he was meanwhile a See also:regular contributor to the British Institution and See also:Suffolk See also:Street Galleries
.
In 184o he moved to See also:Windsor, but after an See also:interval of some years went back to London, where he died in 1859
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Between 1831 and 1859 most of his pictures were shown at the Royal Academy, though he still continued to exhibit occasionally in other galleries
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He undertook in 1827 the publication of a See also:work on The Scenery of the See also:Rivers of See also:Norfolk, which was completed seven years later; the illustrations he
prepared for it have much topographical and artistic See also:interest and show well the better qualities of his work
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In his pictures the See also:influence of Crome is plainly perceptible, and there is See also:evidence also of his study of the Dutch landscape-painters; but he had little of Crome's largeness and See also:power and his See also:works See also:charm rather by their See also:gentle truth and quietness of manner than by their robustness of view or by their decisiveness of See also:execution
.
There is one picture by him, " The Valley of the Yare," in the See also:National See also:Gallery of British See also:Art
.
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