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Bird Study, oil on panel, with light ground and paper attached to front. Award mentioned in Transactions of 1828 - 'Mrs Jos. Stannard, for an original painting of dead game, the Gold Isis medal, 1829, honorary class.' Minutes document the award as 'Qc for an original painting in oil of dead game by a lady of 25, medal is a bounty.'

Mrs Stannard (née Emily Coppin, also awarded under her maiden name - see item 961 in same series) is listed in Redgrave's Dictionary as wife of Joseph Stannard, landscape and marine painter of Norwich, 1797-1830. Other members of the Stannard family designed for the Lowestoft pottery works. Mrs Stannard died in Norwich, aged 82 in January 1885.

Mrs J. Stannard