Henry Bright (5 June 1810 – 21 September 1873), was a distinguished English landscape painter associated with the Norwich School of painters.

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 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.

There is an extensive collection of Bright's paintings at the Norwich Castle Museum. He is also represented at major art galleries in London, Boston and San Francisco.

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186mm x 227mm folded.

R2,500