This is an incomplete list of works by George Vincent. The British artist George Vincent (June 17961832). was one of the most talented of the Norwich School of painters; his work was founded on the Dutch School of landscape painting as well as the style of John Crome. The school's reputation outside East Anglia in the 1820s was based largely upon the works of him and his friend James Stark.
Vincent was educated at Norwich Grammar School and afterwards apprenticed to Crome. He exhibited in London and elsewhere, and from 1811 until 1831 showed works with the Norwich Society of Artists, exhibiting more than a 100 pictures of Norfolk landscapes and marine works. By 1818 he had relocated to London and had obtained the patronage of wealthy clients, but then began to struggle financially. His financial problems led to his incarceration in the Fleet Prison for debt in 1824.
After 1831, Vincent disappeared and his whereabouts after this date remain uncertain. His death may have occurred before April 1832, perhaps in Bath. His picture Greenwich Hospital from the River was shown in London three decades after his death and caused renewed interest in his paintings and helped to establish his reputation as a leading member of the Norwich School. The art historian Herbert Minton Cundall wrote in the 1920s that had Vincent "not given way to intemperate habits he would probably have ranked amongst the foremost of British landscape painters".
Etchings Key BM—work held at the British Museum in London NMC—work held by the Norfolk Museums Collections, based at Norwich Castle O—work held elsewhere.
Image Title Date Locations Commentary known states A Gypsy Encampment 1822 NMC, BM 2 Shipwreck on the coast BM 2 Trees and ruin BM 4 View of a harbour BM 4 View of a ruin BM 4 View of a rural path BM 5 View of a rural path from the left BM 5 View on the Yare, Afternoon BM Titled The River Yare and On the Yare, View of Norwich (NMC) 2 (NMC); 3 (BM) View with a figure standing at the gate of a cottage NMC 1 View with a large tree in the left foreground NMC 1 View with a path in the centre leading to a river NMC 4 View with two cows walking in the foreground NMC 4 Whitlingham NMC 5 Whitlingham NMC 2 Woodland and figures BM Titled Group of trees with figure in roadway by NMC 1 (NMC); 5 (BM)
Oil paintings Image Title Date Technique height x width (cm) Location Commentary A Distant View of Pevensey Bay, the Landing Place of King William the Conqueror 1824 Oil on canvas 14.61 x 233.6 Norwich Museums Collections View of Beachy Head from Pevensey – "Vincent's most ambitious painting"; its "bright colouring and magnificent panoramic space" emulated J. M. W. Turner. (Hemingway)
Moore suggests that the "magnificence" of the view depicted by Vincent can be compared with both Constable and Turner.
"one of his most ambitious oils" (Walpole)A Harbour Scene in the Isle of Wight, Looking Towards the Needles 1824Oil on panel39.1 x 55.9 Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection An English Farmstead oil on canvas 101.5 x 127 Wolverhampton Art Gallery (attributed to) An Old Farmstead near Norwich oil on canvas 76.8 x 63.5 A Norfolk Cottage oil on panel 43.2 x 59.7 Sold at Keys in 2016. A photograph of a similar composition entitled View Near Cromer, signed and dated 1827, is in the Witt Library of the Courtauld Institute of Art. A Norfolk Mill Oil on panel 32.8 x 24.2 Museums Sheffield A Quiet Pool Oil on panel 30.5 x 22.9 A Shady country road Oil on canvas 20.3 x 25.7 Victoria and Albert Museum As part of an analysis of the painting's provenance by the Victoria and Albert Museum, the painting is a copy, and the whereabouts of the original by Vincent is unknown. According to the V&A, the painting has been convincingly attributed to John Joseph Cotman. In 1905, Dickes did not doubt that it was Vincent's. A Shady Pool Oil on oak panel 30.4 x 25.4 Norwich Museums Collections A View near Thorpe, Norwich Sheffield Museums A View of Cheddar Gorgec.1820Oil on canvas91.4 x 121.9Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection A View of Suffolk oil on canvas 90.6 x 113.4 Museums Sheffield A View of Thames Street, Windsor oil on canvas 67.6 x 93.3 Yale Center for British Art A View to Canterbury, KentOil on canvas62 x 75Sold at auction, Previously with Newhouse Galleries, New York After the storm Oil on canvas 75 x 125.5 Sold at Bonhams in 2015 (fetched £625) Alum Bay, Isle of Wight "exceptional example of the work of Crome's pupil, George Vincent..." (Walpole, Art and Artists of the Norwich School): painting reproduced p. 45. Beechy Head and the Martello Towers looking over Hastings from Fairlight Oil on board 38 x 49 Sold at Bonhams in 2015 (fetched £812) Bramerton, Woods End, near Thorpe, Norfolk 1821 Oil on canvas Bolton Art Gallery Brancepeth Castle, Durham oil on canvas 27.9 x 43.2 Sold at Keys in 2011 for £1500.Castle Ashby, NorthamptonshireOil on canvas35.1 x 46.5 Newstead Abbey Cattle and sheep crossing a ford, a distant view of Norwich beyond Inland Revenue Register of Conditionally Exempt Works of Art Cattle Drinking oil on canvas 49.8 x 75.1 Museums Sheffield Cattle grazing before a windmill Oil on panel 32 x 43 Sold at Bonhams in 2003 (fetched £2937) Coast Scene with Rivers and Boats Lady Lever Art Gallery Country Lane with Figures by a Cottage oil on canvas 24.3 x 33 Sold at Keys in 2011 for £270. Driving the Flock, St Mary's, Beverley Oil on canvas 101.6 x 127 Private collection Also known as Driving the Flock, St Mary's, Beverley. Exhibited in 1820 under the title Sheep Crossing a Brook, "freshly coloured" and already showing Vincent's ability to be original and distinctive. (Hemingway) Dutch Fair on Yarmouth Beach (The Dutch Fair at Great Yarmouth) Oil on canvas 130 x 162 Norwich Museums Collections Hemingway describes the work as being "on a much more ambitious scale than Crome's" and compares it with Turner's St Mawes at the Pilchard Season. English landscape with a windmill Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, Somerset Entrance to Loch Katrine – moonlight; Highlanders Spearing Salmon 1825 Oil on canvas 76.8 x 107.9 Norwich Museums Collections Regarded by the Norfolk Chronicle 6 August 1825 as "capital"; Vincent's stated ambition of producing 'Rembrant effects' in a painting was achieved here. (Moore)
Described by Hemingway as the most romantic of Vincent's Scottish scenes, and by Dickes as "magnificent and Crome-like". Evening Twilight Oil on canvas 67.9 x 91.4 Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery (attributed) Farmyard Scene Haworth Art Gallery Figures in a Wooded Lane with Cottage in Distance oil on board 21.6 x 27.9 Sold at Keys in 2015 for £720. Fish Auction, Yarmouth Beach 1827 Oil on canvas 63.5 cm x 76.2 National Trust Fishing Boats in a Harbour 1828 Oil on canvas 64 cm x 92.4 Norwich Museums Collections Greenwich Hospital 1827 "It is at the same time a most charming performance". (Dickes) Greenwich Hospital from the River 1827 Oil on canvas hw "his masterpiece" (Dodgson)
For further information about the painting see the main article about George Vincent. Grove Scene, Norwich 1824 oil on panel 55.9 x 47.7 Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, Somerset LandscapeOil on canvas22.2 x 32.2Victoria and Albert Museum Landscape (View near Norwich) Oil on mahogany panel 26.7 x 34.6 Norwich Museums Collections Landscape, Cattle and Figures Williamson Art Gallery and Museum Landscape – Cattle Crossing A Stream Oil on canvas Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Landscape – Loading Hay 64.77 x 80 "Texture excellent, particularly on the cattle and sheep." (Dickes) Landscape with Cart Oil on canvas 25.4 x 18.1 Norwich Museums Collections (attributed) Landscape with Cattle in a Pool oil on wood 25.4 x 30.5 Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery Landscape with Cottages and Tinker 1828 oil on canvas 43.8 x 60.3 Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery Landscape with Figures 1824 oil on wood 38.1 x 48.2 Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds Museums and Galleries Landscape with figures and cottage Oil on panel 25.4 x 18.1 Norwich Museums Collections Landscape with mule, pedlar and figures Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery Lane Scene Oil on oak panel 24.8 x 20.3 Norwich Museums Collections Loch Etive, Argyllshire 1821 Oil on canvas 54 x 72.2 Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge London from the Surrey Side of Waterloo Bridge 1820 oil on canvas 142.24 x 203.2 "an important work" (Dickes)
Listed and illustrated in A catalogue of pictures by British artists in the possession of Sir John Fleming Leicester, Bart. (1825) Sold at Christie's on 11 September 2019 as St. Paul's from the Surrey Side of Blackfriars Bridge, figures and sailing barges in the foreground, for £10,000. Middle Mill, Wandsworth oil on canvas 65 x 89.5 British Embassy, Luxembourg Part of the Government Art Collection Mousehole Heath, Norfolk oil on canvas 43 x 63 The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology (attributed to) Mouth of the Yare 1821 Oil on panel 71.1 x 91.4 Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museum Norfolk river scene Oil on panel 47.5 x 55.5 Sold at Bonhams in 2008 (fetched £4200) On the river Yare Sheffield Museums On the River Yare Oil on canvas 87.0 x 112.7 Norwich Museums Collections On the River Yare, Norfolk Oil on canvas Overstand near Cromer oil on panel 21.6 x 16.1 Sold at Keys in 2014 for £300. Pastoral Scene 1828 Oil on mahogany panel 66.1 x 84.5 Norwich Museums Collections Pevensey Bay 1824 1824 Oil on paper laid on millboard 20.6 x 27.5 Norwich Museums Collections Signed, inscribed and dated lower left centre 'GV to HD 1824'. Portrait of George Vincent (1796–1832), with landscape background by himself Oil on canvas 77 cm x 63.5 Norwich Museums Collections Portrait by James Clover Postwick Grove Oil on panel 38.4 x 32.4 Norwich Museums Collections River Scene with Boats1825Oil on board25 x 35National Trust, Felbrigg Hall Road Scene with Cattle Oil on oak panel 42.2 x 34.9 Norwich Museums Collections Road Scene with Cottage Oil on panel 29.8 x 38.1 Norwich Museums Collections Rouen 1816 Oil on canvas 63.4 cm x 91.7 Norwich Museums Collections Vincent's only painting derived from a visit to the continent in 1816.
Probably painted shortly after a visit to France, may have been inspired by Boulevard des Italiens, painted by John Crome. "...marred by inconsistencies of scale and perspective..." (Hemingway) Rural landscape with figures Oil on canvas 63.5 cm x 81.3 A group of large russet trees are in the foreground before a pool, on which three ducks are floating. At left and right are thatched cottages amid foliage. Exhibited in New York in 1932. Rustic Scene 1826 Oil on panel 53.0 x 63.8 Norwich Museums Collections
On display at the Elizabethan House Museum, Great Yarmouth Sea Piece 1827 oil on canvas 50.2 x 68.6 Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery Ship Building at Greenwich 1823 Oil on canvas 31 x 40 Sold at Bonhams in 2004 (fetched £27,500) Stamped to the reverse of the panel: 'R. Davy, 83 Newman Street'. This would date the panel to post-1822. Exhibited: Norwich School paintings, Norwich Castle 1927. No 121. St Benet's Abbey, Norfolk oil on panel 21.6 x 27.9 Sold at Keys in 2016. Sunlit glade Oil on mahogany panel 67.3 x 83.8 Art Gallery NSW The Blasted Oak 1830 Oil on canvas 76.1 x 63.1 Norwich Museums Collections The River Yare with Cottage and Young Man Fishing from the Bank oil on canvas 40.6 x 55.9 Sold at Keys in 2012.The Travelling Pedlarc.1826Oil on canvas388.4 x 112Norfolk Museums Service The Travelling Tinker oil on canvas 42.2 x 53.3 Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, Somerset The Travelling Tinker Christchurch Mansion Museum and Art Gallery, Suffolk Trowse Hythe, near Norwich Oil on canvas 31.8 cm x 41.3 Norwich Museums Collections Trowse Meadows, near Norwich 1828 Oil on canvas 72.9 x 109.4 Norwich Museums Collections "This charming pastoral was apparently so admired by Thirtle that he made a beautiful water-colour drawing from it". (Dickes)