Alfred Stannard

ALFRED STANNARD 1806 – Norwich – 1889 Alfred Stannard was a painter of marines and landscapes. Most of his landscapes are from the Norwich area and the coast around Yarmouth. He was the brother and pupil of Joseph Stannard (1797-1830). Both brothers were part of the Norwich circle of painters. Alfred reputedly studied with John Crome. Alfred Stannard principally painted scenes of his beloved Norwich countryside with motifs of shipping and light effects reminiscent of the Romantic marine painters of Holland. He exhibited in London between 1826 and 1860. He showed eight paintings at the British Institution and seven paintings at the Royal Society of British Artists, Suffolk Street. He was a vital member of many East Anglian artistic societies amongst them the Norfolk and Norwich Association of the Fine Arts, the Norfolk and Suffolk Institution for the Promotion of Fine Arts, the East of England Art Union and the Norwich Society of Artists. Alfred Stannard married Miss Sparkes in 1827. The marriage produced fourteen children. Alfred George Stannard and Eloise Harriet Stannard both became artists, Alfred George became a landscape painter like his father, while Eloise Harriet was best known for her still life painting. The work of Alfred Stannard is represented in Norfolk Museums (including Elizabethan House Museum, Great Yarmouth), Canterbury Museums and Galleries, Derby Museum and Art Gallery and South Somerset District Council. Alfred Stannard was included in Harold A E Day’s East Anglian Painters (vol III) and in the 1934 Stannard retrospective exhibition.