English landscape artist, engraver, and heraldic painter
Henry Ninham
Portrait by Anthony Sands (undated)
Born
(1796-10-15)15 October 1796
Norwich
Died
23 October 1874(1874-10-23) (aged 78)
Norwich
Nationality
British
Known for
Landscape painting, engraving and printmaking
Movement
Norwich School of painters
Spouse
Elizabeth Wine
Elected
member of the Norwich Society of Artists
Memorial(s)
Plaque outside the family house on Chapel Field North, Norwich
Henry Ninham (15 October 1796 – 23 October 1874) was an English landscape artist, engraver and heraldic painter. He and his father John Ninham belonged to the Norwich School of painters, a group of artists who all worked or lived in Norwich during all or part of their working lives from around 1800 to 1880. Along with the Norwich School artists John Thirtle and David Hodgson, he was the foremost recorder of Norwich's architectural heritage prior to the invention of photography.
The son of John Ninham, one of the Norwich School's founding members, Ninham trained as a panel painter under his father and was taught art by John Crome. Throughout much of his adult life, he was directly involved in running the family printing business in Chapelfield Lane, Norwich. After a largely uneventful life, he died in Norwich in 1874.
Ninham rarely travelled far from home to find new subjects. A skilled engraver, his works have provided historians with invaluable information regarding the appearance of many of Norwich's streets and medieval, Tudor and Georgian buildings prior to their demolition.
HenryNinham (15 October 1796 – 23 October 1874) was an English landscape artist, engraver and heraldic painter. He and his father John Ninham belonged...
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began in the 1850s. His prints were made by his friend and neighbour HenryNinham, whose technique he influenced. His paintings of the Near East may have...
living in London during this period, letters to his friends the artist HenryNinham and the botanist Dawson Turner reveal the extent of his opposition. In...
(1800–1838) Maria Margitson (1832–1896) John Middleton (1827–1856) HenryNinham (1796–1874) John Ninham (1754–1817) Alfred Priest (1810–1850) Anthony Sands (1806–1883)...
followed by three more sons, John Joseph Cotman, (Francis) Walter, and Alfred Henry. who were born in 1814, 1816 and 1819 respectively. A sixth child, a daughter...
(1800–1838) Maria Margitson (1832–1896) John Middleton (1827–1856) HenryNinham (1796–1874) John Ninham (1754–1817) Alfred Priest (1810–1850) Anthony Sands (1806–1883)...
formal split with Rome in 1534, when Thomas Cromwell, chief minister to Henry VIII, acting as his Vicar General, issued an injunction requiring that in...
(1800–1838) Maria Margitson (1832–1896) John Middleton (1827–1856) HenryNinham (1796–1874) John Ninham (1754–1817) Alfred Priest (1810–1850) Anthony Sands (1806–1883)...
two daughters and six sons, two of whom, John Berney Crome and William Henry Crome became landscape painters. In 1803 Crome and Ladbrooke formed the...
Daniel Nimham (also Ninham) (1726 – 1778) was the last sachem of the Wappinger people and an American Revolutionary War combat veteran. He was the most...
produced by "a very independent spirit, answerable to no-one". The artist Henry Ladbrooke, who was a contemporary of Thirtle's, wrote: "As a man of genius...
(1800–1838) Maria Margitson (1832–1896) John Middleton (1827–1856) HenryNinham (1796–1874) John Ninham (1754–1817) Alfred Priest (1810–1850) Anthony Sands (1806–1883)...
along with John Crome, founded the Norwich School of painters. His sons Henry Ladbrooke and John Berney Ladbrooke were also associated with the Norwich...
(1800–1838) Maria Margitson (1832–1896) John Middleton (1827–1856) HenryNinham (1796–1874) John Ninham (1754–1817) Alfred Priest (1810–1850) Anthony Sands (1806–1883)...
parents were Henry Edmund Cotman (1802–1871), formerly a Norwich silk merchant and his wife Maria Taylor (1813–1895). His elder brothers, Henry Edmund Cotman...
Priest became interested in becoming an artist, and studied etching under HenryNinham for two years. His first known original engraving was Sketch of the opening...
(1800–1838) Maria Margitson (1832–1896) John Middleton (1827–1856) HenryNinham (1796–1874) John Ninham (1754–1817) Alfred Priest (1810–1850) Anthony Sands (1806–1883)...
career began in a similar way to those of his contemporaries Crome and John Ninham. Released from his apprenticeship, he moved to London. He was employed as...
(1800–1838) Maria Margitson (1832–1896) John Middleton (1827–1856) HenryNinham (1796–1874) John Ninham (1754–1817) Alfred Priest (1810–1850) Anthony Sands (1806–1883)...
(1800–1838) Maria Margitson (1832–1896) John Middleton (1827–1856) HenryNinham (1796–1874) John Ninham (1754–1817) Alfred Priest (1810–1850) Anthony Sands (1806–1883)...
(1800–1838) Maria Margitson (1832–1896) John Middleton (1827–1856) HenryNinham (1796–1874) John Ninham (1754–1817) Alfred Priest (1810–1850) Anthony Sands (1806–1883)...
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