Emily Coppin Stannard

Date of birth
08 February 1802
Place of birth
Norwich, England
Date of death
06 January 1885
Place of death
Norwich, England
Nationality
Britain
Biography

Considered one of the finest nineteenth century painters of the still life genre, Emily Stannard was associated with the Norwich School of Painters. Born in Norwich in 1802 Stannard came form a talented artistic family with both parents being accomplishe amateur artisrts. Unusually for a woman in the early nineteenth century, Stannard was encouraged to pursue her artistic passion.

In 1820 she travelled to The Netherlands with her father where she studied the masters of the Dutch Golden Age celebrated for their still life and vanitas paintings. Stannard began exhibiting with the Norwich Society of Artists in 1816, an organisation whcih her father had assisted in founding in 1803. The Society awarded her three gold medals over the course of her career.