1. Emily Stannard, who from 1826 called herself Mrs Joseph Stannard, was a British still life painter.
19 Facts About Emily Stannard
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Emily Stannard was associated with the Norwich School of painters, Britain's first provincial art movement.
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Emily Stannard married the Norwich artist Joseph Stannard in 1826, but was widowed four years later.
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Emily Stannard painted until she was in her eighties, mainly depicting paintings of flowers in vases, fruit or game animals.
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Emily Stannard exhibited in both Norwich and London, and was awarded a large gold medal in 1820 for an original painting of flowers, and two further gold medals in later years.
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Emily Stannard became an honorary member of the Norwich Society of Artists in 1831.
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Emily Stannard's works were favourably received by the local press during her lifetime, and in recent decades, art historians have praised the highly finished appearance of her paintings and her use of colour.
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The largest collection of works by Emily Stannard are held by the Norfolk Museums Collections, based at Norwich Castle.
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Emily Stannard's works were shown at an exhibition of paintings by her family held in Norwich in 1934, and she was among those women artists featured in 2018 and 2019, at the exhibition Visible Women at Norwich Castle.
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Emily Stannard became an honorary member in 1831, and was the only individual in her family to have a formal association with the Society.
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Emily Stannard Coppin was born on 8 February 1802 in Norwich, the daughter of Daniel Coppin and his wife Elizabeth Clyatt.
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The marriage was short-lived, for Joseph Emily Stannard died of tuberculosis in 1830 at the age of thirty-three, despite the efforts of his wife, who tried many doctors and treatments in an attempt to save him.
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Emily Stannard was to outlive him by over half a century.
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Emily Stannard lived as an artist and a teacher in Norwich for over 50 years, during which time her paintings received favourable reviews in the press.
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Emily Stannard, assisted by her daughter, had a long career as an art teacher.
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Emily Stannard exhibited 22 pictures at the Norwich Society of Artists from 1816 to 1825.
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Emily Stannard received good local press reviews of her works throughout her career.
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Emily Stannard's works were shown at the Norwich Castle Museum Emily Stannard Exhibition in 1934.
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Emily Stannard was among those women artists represented at the exhibition Visible Women at Norwich Castle in 2018 and 2019.