James Stark - 19th Century Graphite Drawing Marlow on Thames

Description

James Stark - Original 19th Century Graphite Drawing. Inscribed lower right. On blue paper. In a mount. Provenance: has been through Christie's; label on reverse. In fine condition

Size

Size: 14 x 24.2cm (5.5" x 9.5")

Collection Information

James Stark (1794 –1859) was a landscape painter of the ‘Norwich School’. Born in Norwich, he was educated at the Grammar School where he became friends with John Berney Crome. He was then apprenticed to John Berney's father, the landscape artist John Crome, for three years from 1811. He was elected a member of the Norwich Society of Artists in 1812. In 1814 he moved to London and in 1817 he became a student at the Royal Academy Schools. After only two years of study, ill health forced Stark to return to Norwich. There he devoted himself to painting the scenery around the city and executed a series of paintings of Norfolk rivers which were eventually engraved and published in 1834. In 1830, he again settled in London and exhibited at the British Institution, the Royal Academy and the Society of British Artists. In 1839, he moved to Windsor, where he painted many pictures of the scenery along the Thames. Between 1831 and 1859 most of his pictures were shown at the Royal Academy. In his pictures the influence of Crome is plainly perceptible, and there is evidence also of his study of the Dutch landscape-painters. Much of his work is kept at the Castle Museum and Art Gallery in Norwich. Provenance: Christie's

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This picture came as part of a fascinating collection of 18th and 19th Century watercolours including pieces by Lady Julia Isabella Levina Gordon, best known as pupil of J.M.W. Turner, Thomas Girtin and David Cox. Also graphite drawings by ‘Norwich School’ artist James Stark , and further fine works by Edmund Thomas Parris, history painter to Queen Adelaide, Queen Consort of William IV, and J.C. Barrow. You can see the whole collection here.