The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (343 page)

(1562–1641).
Flemish history and portrait painter, remembered chiefly as one of the teachers of
Rubens
. Too little is known of the style of either man at the time to know what influence he may have had. Another famous pupil was
Jordaens
, who became van Noort's son-in-law in 1616.

 
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(1746–1831).
English portrait and history painter,
Reynolds's
pupil, assistant, and biographer. He spent the years 1777–80 in Rome and settled in London in 1781. Rome had given him ambitions to history painting, but his exercises in this field, notably for
Boydell's
Shakespeare Gallery, are ponderous and awkward. As a portraitist he was an uninspired follower of Reynolds, and it is as a writer that he has the main claim to distinction; he was something of a character and a lively commentator on the artistic scene.
Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds
(1813, supplement 1815) is his major publication.

 
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Norwich School
.

English regional school of landscape painting, associated with the Norwich Society of Artists, which was founded in 1803, with
Crome
as president. From 1805 until 1825 exhibitions were held every year in Norwich—the first instance of a provincial institution holding regular exhibitions. When Crome died in 1821, his place as president was taken by
Cotman
, and the activities of the Society continued until his departure for London in 1834. The Norwich artists consisted almost entirely of landscape painters in oil and watercolour, working chiefly under Crome's influence with a bias in favour of Norfolk scenery.

 
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(d. 1711/13).
Flemish-born sculptor who settled in England in about 1678. By 1686 he was foreman to Artus III
Quellin
, whose widow he later married. He is chiefly notable as a maker of lead garden statues, some based on Italian or
antique
models but others of his own creation. Examples remain at Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, Hampton Court, and many other places. His tombs are less interesting. His son—not, as long thought, his nephew—of the same name (d. 1780) continued the practice.

 
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(d. 1509).
German sculptor, the leading wood-carver in the Baltic area during his period. He worked mainly in Lübeck, where he is first recorded (as a painter) in 1467, but his masterpiece was executed in Sweden, where he was summoned in 1483 to make a monument commemorating a victory by the Regent, Sten Sture, over the Danes. The victory was attributed to the assistance of St George , and Notke's stirring group of
St George and the Dragon
(completed 1489) in the Storkyrka (Stockholm's main church) is one of the greatest of all votive images. Its spiky forms represent the most expressionistic strain in late
Gothic
art and the vividly naturalistic details include the use of real elk antlers for the dragon's horns.

 
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novecento
.

See
QUATTROCENTO
.

 
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