Edward Daniell was associated with the Norwich School of painters, a regional school of landscape painters who were connected personally or professionally. Though mainly inspired by the Norfolk countryside, many also depicted other landscapes, and coastal and urban scenes.[5]
The school's most important artists were John Crome, Joseph Stannard, George Vincent, Robert Ladbrooke, James Stark, John Thirtle and John Sell Cotman, along with Cotman's sons Miles Edmund and John Joseph Cotman. The school was a unique phenomenon in the history of 19th-century British art:[6] Norwich was the first English city outside London which had the right conditions for a provincial art movement.[7][8] It had more locally born artists than any other similar city,[9] and its theatrical, artistic, philosophical and musical cultures were cross-fertilised in a way that was unique outside the capital.[7][10]
The Norwich Society of Artists, which was founded by Crome and Ladbrooke in 1803,[11] arose from the need for a group of Norwich artists to teach each other and their pupils. The Society held regular exhibitions and had an organised structure, showing works annually until 1825 and again from 1828 until it was dissolved in 1833.[12] Not all the members of the Norwich School belonged to the Society.[13]
At the end of the seventeenth century, other schools of painting had begun to form, associated with artists such as Francis Towne at Exeter and John Malchair at Oxford. Other centres of population outside London were creating art societies, whose artists and drawing masters influenced their pupils.[14] Unlike the artists of the Norwich School, these provincial artists did not benefit from wealthy merchants and landed gentry demonstrating their patriotism by acquiring picturesque paintings of the English countryside.[15] The Norwich Society of Artists, the first group of its kind to be created since the formation of the Royal Academy in 1768, was remarkable in acting in its artists' interests for thirty years, a longer period than for any other similar group.[16]
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