Robert Orgill Leman (1799–1869) was an English painter of landscapes and a member of the

Norwich School of painters The Norwich School of painters was the first provincial art movement established in Britain, active in the early 19th century. Artists of the school were inspired by the natural environment of the Norfolk landscape and owed some influence to the wo ...

Life

Robert Leman - Visitors at a Ruined Abbey

Robert Orgill Leman was born on 12 April 1799 as Robert Orgill, the son of Naunton Thomas Orgill and his wife Henrietta Jane Anderson, and was baptised on the same day.Robert Orgill in "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", ''FamilySearch''
Robert Orgill
. His father, the Reverend Naunton Thomas Orgill, succeeded to the estates of the Leman family and was obliged to add the family name to Leman as a result. Studying under John Sell Cotman, he became a talented amateur landscape painter and exhibited his works in

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the See of Norwich, with ...

with the Norwich Society of Artists. Leman differed from many of his artistic friends in the Society by not having to sell his works for a living: he painted and etched drawings for his own interest. He died in 1869 and was buried at Brampton, the village in

Suffolk Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...

where he was born.''Robert Leman''
Suffolk Artists

References

External links

Works by Robert Leman
at the

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

Works by Robert Leman
at the Norfolk Museums Collections
''Robert Orgill Leman''
- Suffolk Artists website
Works by Robert Leman
at

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Robert Leman
on Artnet

Bibliography

* * 1799 births 1869 deaths British landscape artists Artists from Suffolk People from Waveney District {{England-painter-stub