Henry Ninham | |
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 Portrait by Anthony Sands (undated) | |
| Born | 15 October 1796 Norwich, England |
| Died | 23 October 1874 (aged 78) Norwich, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for | Landscape painting, engraving and printmaking |
| Movement | Norwich School of painters |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Wine |
| Elected | member of the Norwich Society of Artists |
| Memorial(s) | Plaque outside the family house on Chapel Field North, Norwich |
Henry Ninham (15 October 1796 – 23 October 1874) was an English landscape artist, engraver and heraldic painter. He and his father John Ninham belonged to the Norwich School of painters, a group of artists who all worked or lived in Norwich during all or part of their working lives from around 1800 to 1880. Along with the Norwich School artists John Thirtle and David Hodgson, he was the foremost recorder of Norwich's architectural heritage prior to the invention of photography.
The son of John Ninham, one of the Norwich School's founding members, Ninham trained as a panel painter under his father and was taught art by John Crome. Throughout much of his adult life, he was directly involved in running the family printing business in Chapelfield Lane, Norwich. After a largely uneventful life, he died in Norwich in 1874.
Ninham rarely travelled far from home to find new subjects. A skilled engraver, his works have provided historians with invaluable information regarding the appearance of many of Norwich's streets and medieval, Tudor and Georgian buildings prior to their demolition.