Henry Ninham was an English landscape artist, engraver and heraldic painter. He and his father John Ninham belonged to the Norwich School of painters, a group of artists who all worked or lived in Norwich during all or part of their working lives from around 1800 to 1880. Along with the Norwich School artists John Thirtle and David Hodgson, he was the foremost recorder of Norwich's architectural heritage prior to the invention of photography.
Portrait by Anthony Sands (undated)
The artist John Crome, whose pupils included Ninham. Crome was the founder of the Norwich School of painters.
Portrait of John Ninham (Norfolk Museums Collections)
Fuller's House, St Martin's, Norwich (undated), Norfolk Museums Collections
Norwich School of painters
The Norwich School of painters was the first provincial art movement established in Britain, active in the early 19th century. Artists of the school were inspired by the natural environment of the Norfolk landscape and owed some influence to the work of landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age such as Hobbema and Ruisdael.
John Crome, Mousehold Heath, Norwich (c. 1818), Tate Britain
John Sell Cotman, Greta Bridge (c. 1806), British Museum
Joseph Clover Portrait of George Vincent, background by Vincent (undated), Norfolk Museums Collections
Henry Bright, On the Norfolk Broads (c. 1855), Yale Center for British Art