A love supreme
Country Life UK|December 25, 2024
Art brought together 19th-century Norwich couple Joseph and Emily Stannard, who shared a passion for painting, but their destiny would be dramatically different
Carla Passino
A love supreme

AN artists’ society seems an unlikely setting for romance, but it’s there that Emily Coppin (about 1803–85) met fellow painter Joseph Stannard (1797–1830) and fell in love. She was a young, but acclaimed painter of floral still lifes. He was an accomplished portraitist and landscape artist, a skilled oarsman and ‘the most elegant skater of his day’, who ‘excited the admiration of all by the elegance and perfection by which he cut all the difficult figures,’ according to Harold Day in Life and Work of Joseph Stannard. No wonder Emily was charmed.

Born in Norwich, she was the daughter of a collector and amateur artist, Daniel Coppin, and a painter, Elizabeth, née Clyatt, a skilled copyist of works by better-known masters. Emily’s talent was superior to that of either parent and when she was only 17, the Society of the Artists awarded her a gold medal for a painting of flowers. Her father indulged her passion and in about 1820 took her to The Netherlands, where she was given permission to copy works by floral maestro Jan van Huysum.

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