page_title: Henry Bright (painter)
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Henry Bright (painter) / Works
caption_attribution_description: "Effect after Rain", oil on canvas
context_page_description: Henry Bright, was a distinguished English landscape painter associated with the Norwich School of painters.
context_section_description: Bright painted in various locations in England, Scotland, Wales and across Europe, working in oils, watercolour, chalk and pencil. During a few of these sketching expeditions he was accompanied by J M W Turner, with whom he had struck up a friendship. Bright's work was also highly regarded by John Ruskin.
  Bright's first major exhibition was at the British Institution, London in 1836. He exhibited at the Liverpool Academy exhibition that year as "Draughtsman in crayons to her Royal Highness the Langravine of Hesse Hamberg". He became a member of the New Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1839, where he exhibited until 1844. Although his obituary in The Art Journal stated that he did not exhibit in oils until the Royal Academy exhibition of 1845, this is not known for certain.
  Bright developed friendships with other leading artists, including Samuel Prout, Henry Jutsum, David Cox, George Lance, William Collingwood Smith, William Leighton Leitch and James Duffield Harding. He was influenced by Harding's oil and pencil technique and, like him, issued a number of drawing-books in the 1840s.  His use of chalk and stump on buff paper is similar to that of Robert Leman (1799–1863), while John Middleton strongly influenced his use of watercolour, particularly in around 1847.
  Bright's name was also associated with the manufacture of coloured crayons. He established a profitable career teaching the titled and well-to-do, many of whom became his patrons. In 1844 Queen Victoria purchased Bright's Entrance to an Old Prussian Town (London, Royal Collection) from the New Society of Painters in Watercolours. He also received several commissions from the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia.
  His professional success extended to working collaboratively with other artists, including John Frederick Herring and William Shayer, where Bright usually contributed the background. Throughout his career in London, Bright maintained links with the artists of the Norwich School of painters.
caption: Effect after rain
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