Description
Still life oil painting is signed by the artist. Finished with an ornate gold period frame.
About Eloise Harriet Stannard
Eloise Harriet Stannard (1829–1915) was born in Norwich, Norfolk. She was a painter, well known for her still life work.
Stannard came from an artistic family, where she was one of the fourteen children of the painter and drawing teacher Alfred Stannard and Martha Stannard. She was also the niece of the well known painters, Joseph and Emily Coppin Stannard. Eloise’s father was a member of the Norwich School of painters. Although Eloise and her aunt would become the only two notable female artists associated with the Norwich School.
Her painting style was influenced by traditional Dutch still life painters, including the likes of artist, Jan van Huysum. Many of her subjects were of baskets and bowls of fruits, that were not grown in England, sometimes accented with small insects. She is today considered one of Britain’s most gifted still life painters.
Stannard later became unwell but still maintained an active career as a painter, exhibiting regularly and becoming very successful. She began exhibiting in 1852, showing at the British Institution (1852–1866), the Royal Academy of Art (1856–1993), the Royal Society of British Artists (1856), and the Royal Glasgow Institute (1861).
In 1871 she received an invitation from the Committee of the Female School of Arts, which asked her to be a judge for the school, although her poor health prevented her from accepting the invitation. She did however, become a member of the Society of Women Artists.
