page_title: Edward Thomas Daniell
section_title: Church career
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Thomas Daniell / Life / Church career
context_page_description: Edward Thomas Daniell was an English artist known for his etchings and the landscape paintings he made during an expedition to the Middle East, including Lycia, part of modern-day Turkey. He is associated with the Norwich School of painters, a group of artists connected by location and personal and professional relationships, who were mainly inspired by the Norfolk countryside.
  Born in London to wealthy parents, Daniell grew up and was educated in Norwich, where he was taught art by John Crome and Joseph Stannard. After graduating in classics at Balliol College, Oxford in 1828, he was ordained as a curate at Banham in 1832 and appointed to a curacy at St. Mark's Church, London in 1834. He became a patron of the arts, and an influential friend of the artist John Linnell. In 1840, after resigning his curacy and leaving England for the Middle East, he toured Egypt, Palestine and Syria, met the explorer Sir Charles Fellows and joined his archaeological expedition in Lycia as an illustrator. He contracted malaria there and reached Adalia to recuperate, but died from a second attack of the disease.
context_section_description: On 7 October 1832 Daniell was ordained in Norwich Cathedral as a deacon, and three days later was licensed as the curate of the parish church at Banham, a post he held for eighteen months. Letters to John Linnell show that he needed to increase his income during this period in his life. Little is known of his career as a Norfolk curate, but the Banham  registers, all of which have been preserved, show he led an active life in the parish.  He continued to etch at this time, and in Thistlethwaite's view produced his "loveliest and most sophisticated plates" at Banham.
  On 2 June 1833, Daniell was ordained to the priesthood, but continued as the curate at Banham until 1834. That year he was appointed to the curacy of St. Mark's, North Audley Street in London, and took rooms in Park Street, Mayfair. He also worked at St. George's Hospital, but as with his curacy at St. Mark's, no official records of his employment have survived. In a letter written in 1835 to his Oxford tutor Joseph Blanco White, Daniell wrote: "You probably, thought I was haranguing the plough-boys in Norfolk, and you find me among the Dons of Grosvenor Square, and having to preach (as I must) next Wednesday at St. George's, Hanover Square. I wish you would come and give me some assistance." In about 1836 he moved to rooms in Green Street, near Grosvenor Square and close to St. Mark's, living there until his departure for the Holy Land in 1840.
  The outer shell of Norwich Castle's keep was refaced in Bath stone from 1834–1839, replicating the original blank arcading. Daniell was among those who strongly opposed the proposed refacing. Letters written from London show that he had not forgotten this contentious issue. He planned a plate of Ninham's drawing of the castle as a gesture of his opposition to the project, informing the antiquary Dawson Turner that "I have had a very beautiful drawing made of it, and I mean to etch it the size of the drawing." His etching of the old keep was never completed.
caption: St. Mark's, North Audley Street, as it appeared in the 1830s
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