Norwich School of painters

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The Norwich School of painters was a pioneering early 19th-century British art movement centered in Norwich, known for its landscape and rural scene paintings.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British art movement
art movement
landscape art movement
activeInCentury 19th century
artisticFocus drawing
etching
oil painting
watercolour painting
basedOn Norfolk plain
surface form: Norfolk countryside

Norwich city centre on River Yare
surface form: Norwich city views

River Yare
country United Kingdom
exhibitedAt Norwich Society of Artists
foundedBy John Crome
Robert Ladbrooke
genre landscape painting
rural scene painting
hasMember Alfred Stannard
David Hodgson
George Frost
George Vincent
Henry Bright
James Stark
John Crome
surface form: John Berney Crome

John Crome
John Sell Cotman
John Thirtle
Joseph Stannard
John Sell Cotman
surface form: Miles Edmund Cotman

Robert Ladbrooke
hasOrganizingBody Norwich Society of Artists
inception 1803
influenced later British landscape painters
influencedBy 17th-century Dutch painters
Dutch Golden Age landscape painting
location Norwich
movementCharacteristic detailed observation of nature
focus on Norfolk landscape
intimate scale compositions
naturalistic depiction of local scenery
topographical accuracy
use of subdued, atmospheric color
notableFor being the first provincial art movement in Britain
regular annual exhibitions in Norwich
strong sense of local identity
partOf British art
English art
region Norfolk
timePeriod early 19th century

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Frederic Sandys memberOf Norwich School of painters
Emma Sandys associatedWith Norwich School of painters
John Lindley educatedAt Norwich School of painters
this entity surface form: Norwich School (informal botanical training via local botanists)
English landscape school institutionalContext Norwich School of painters