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
Norwich Castle
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Norwich Castle is a medieval royal fortification in the city of Norwich, in the English county of Norfolk. William the Conqueror (1066–1087) ordered its construction in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest of England. The castle was used as a gaol from 1220 to 1887. In 1894 the Norwich Museum moved to Norwich Castle. The museum and art gallery holds significant objects from the region, especially works of art, archaeological finds and natural history specimens.
Norwich Castle, March 2009
Plan of Norwich Castle keep by William Wilkins prior to alterations completed in 1793 by John Soane.
South-west view of the castle: watercolour and pen-and-ink drawing by Francis Grose, 20 October 1775
Architectural drawing by John Soane of his extension to Norwich Castle prison (completed 1793).