Eloise Harriet Stannard

Eloise Harriet Stannard (1829–1915) was a British 19th century painter known for her still life work. She was one of only two notable women artists associated with the Norwich School of painters, Britain's first provincial art movement.

Biography Eloise Harriet Stannard was born in Norwich, Norfolk, on 1 February 1829, and christened on 12 February at St Peter Parmentergate, Norwich. She was one of the fourteen children of landscape painter and drawing teacher Alfred Stannard and Martha Stannard (née Sparks).

Stannard was probably trained as an artist by her father, and her style was influenced by traditional Dutch still life painting, especially the artist Jan van Huysum.

Stannard suffered from poor health but still maintained an active career as a painter, exhibiting regularly and becoming so successful that she never needed to take in pupils, as was often the case for women artists in the 19th century. the Royal Academy of Art (1856–1893), the Royal Society of British Artists (1856), and the Royal Glasgow Institute (1861). In 1859, the Art Journal praised her work exhibited at the Royal Academy that year with the following comment

In 1857, she received a tribute written by George Nicol, Secretary of the British Institution, who wrote, In 1871 Eloise Stannard received an invitation from the Committee of the Female School of Arts, which asked her to be a judge for the school. Her poor health prevented her from accepting the invitation.

She became a member of the Society of Women Artists in 1871.