James Stark (painter)
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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 1829. He had wealthy patrons and was consistently praised by the Norfolk press for his successful London career.
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
Norwich School of painters
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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