Samuel David Colkett (1806– 24 January 1863) was an English artist, known for his work in

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. He was a member of the

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Life

Samuel David Colkett was born in 1806 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 ...

and was christened on 2 March at St. Stephen's Church, the son of William Samuel Colkett and Susannah Sharp.Samuel David Colkett in "Parish registers for St. Stephen's Church, Norwich", ''FamilySearch''
Samuel David Colkett
. Colkett's father, who died early, owned a

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on St. Stephen's Street in Norwich: his mother took over the shop after her husband's death. He studied under James Stark. Between 1822 and 1833 he exhibited regularly in both Norwich and

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. Between 1828 and 1836 he worked in London, before returning to Norwich to set up as a drawing master and an art restorer. In 1844 he moved to

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, and then to

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in 1854.Walpole, ''Art and Artists of the Norwich School'', p.143. He died on 24 January 1863 and was buried in the Mill Road Cemetery, Cambridge.

Victoria Susanna Colkett

Samuel's daughter Victoria Susanna was born in 1840, when the family were living in Cambridge. She exhibited on a regular basis at the

British Institution The British Institution (in full, the British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom; founded 1805, disbanded 1867) was a private 19th-century society in London formed to exhibit the works of living and dead artists; it w ...

. In 1874 she married the accomplished watercolourist Harry Hine, and so her works are sometimes signed using her married surname. She died in 1926.Walpole, ''Art and Artists of the Norwich School'', p.146.

Life

Victoria Susanna Colkett

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