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Awarded gold Isis medal

Awarded silver medal

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.

Awarded large gold medal.

Henry Courtney Selous (b. 1804, Deptford - d. 1890, Devon) was an English painter, illustrator and lithographer who submitted this painting to the Royal Society of Arts Polite Arts committee in 1824. He was the son of Gideon "George" Slous, a Flemish portrait and miniature painter, and a pupil of John Martin who was an important and influential English painter of the 19th century. From 1835 to 1838 he was an occupant of Keats House in Hampstead. Selous had two brothers, Frederick Lokes Slous and Angiolo Robson Slous, a playwright who wrote True to the Core: A Story of the Armada and whose daughter Alice married the novelist Morley Roberts.

Awarded silver Isis medal for a copy of flowers in the same year

Awarded large silver medal for a drawing in water colours of fruit and flowers in the same year

Awarded large silver medal for a copy of flowers in the same year

Image acquired but not used to illustrate lecture text for 'Straight lines and great circles: reweaving the local' by Susan Clifford, held at the RSA, 4/3/1998

Includes sketch of method