GEORGE

See also:

• VINCENT (or VINCENTIUS), ST
• GEORGE VINCENT (1796-1831?)
• VINCENT, MARY ANN (1818-1887)

VINCENT (1796-1831?)  , English landscape and marine painter, was born at Norwich in June 1796 . He studied art under " Old " Crome, and at the age of fifteen began to contribute to the Norwich exhibition . From 1814 till 1823 he exhibited occasionally at the Royal Academy, and also in the Water-Colour Exhibition and the British Institution . In 1819 he removed from Norwich to London, and he was a contributor to the Suffolk Street gallery from its foundation in 1824 till 1830 . He possessed great artistic abilities; but he fell into dissipation, and his works became slight and hastily executed . Finally he dropped out of sight, and he is believed to have died about 1831 . His most important work, a " View of Greenwich Hospital," was shown in the International Exhibition of 1862 . His " London from the Surrey Side of Waterloo Bridge " is also a fine work .