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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 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 . 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 . 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 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 . 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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