Alfred Priest was an English painter of landscapes and marine artist, and a member of the Norwich School of painters. Born in Norwich, he was educated to follow his father in becoming a pharmacist, bu
Portrait by Miles Edmund Cotman
An etching by Priest of the chemist's shop on London Street, Norwich, run by his father (undated), British Museum
Beach Scene 1849, Norfolk Museums Collections
Iffley Mill, Oxford (1844), Norfolk Museums Collections
James Stark was an English landscape painter. A leading member of the Norwich School of painters, he was elected vice-president of the Norwich Society of Artists in 1828 and became their president in
Alfred Priest
…home to work at sea, before briefly working as an apprentice surgeon. With his family’s support, Priest then studied art in London, and was taught by James Stark and Edward William Cooke. He specialized in marine painting and rural scenes of his native Norfolk, and exhibited at the Society of British Artists and…
Portrait by Horace Beevor Love (1830), National Portrait Gallery, London
St Michael Coslany, Norwich, where James Stark was baptised
Undated portrait by Margaret Carpenter, Norfolk Museums Collections
Cromer (c.1837), Norfolk Museums Collections