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Celebrating our Ancestors: Artists on Deceased Online

In our latest email, we celebrated Artists in the Deceased Online database. The text of the email is as follows . . . Norwich City's Rosary Cemetery , published two weeks ago on  www.deceasedonline.com , provides the final resting place of a number of members of the Norwich School of Painters. James Stark (1794 to 1859) , an English landscape painter, was a leading member of the group. In 1828 he became the vice-president of the Norwich Society for Artists , and went on to become their president in the following year. He enjoyed a successful career in both Norfolk and London.   Above: "The Forest Oak" (1843) by James Stark John Thirtle (1777 to 1839) , another of Norwich's successful painters, also rests in Rosary Cemetery . Thirtle was a leading member of the Norwich School of Painters , and his paintings are generally considered to be outstanding examples of historical watercolours. Sadly, a lifelong battle against tuberculosis meant he produced relatively...