John Berney Ladbrooke

John Berney Ladbrooke (31 October 180311 July 1879) was an English landscape painter and lithographer, who was associated with the Norwich School of painters.

Life Ladbrooke was born in the English county of Norfolk on 31 October 1803. He was the third of four sons of the painter Robert Ladbrooke, all of whom were artists to varying degrees, with Henry and John Berney achieving the most success. Another brother, Robert, became a wood carver and gilder, picture cleaner, and drawing master.

He became a pupil of the Norwich artist John Crome, who was his uncle by marriage, and whose artistic style he followed.

Before 1850 Ladbrooke toured the Netherlands and France. He was married to Hannah, but there were no children from the marriage. The fruit and flower painter Maria Louisa Margitson was his niece. In 1859 he built a house on Mousehold Heath. Ladbrooke died at his home in Norwich on 11 July 1879 and was buried at the nearby Rosary Cemetery.

Artistic career Ladbrooke excelled in the representation of woodland scenery. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1821 and 1822, and frequently at the British Institution and the Suffolk Street Gallery up to 1873. A successful teacher, his most notable student was John Middleton.