NORRIS, CHARLES (1779-1858), artist;
b. 24 Aug. 1779, second son of John Norris, a wealthy London merchant, by his wife Catherine (Lynch), the divorced wife of Henry Knight of Tythegston, Glam. (see the article on H. H. Knight). Though not a Welshman by birth, Norris lived and worked in Wales for nearly sixty years. He settled in 1800 at Milford, but removed in 1810 to Tenby, where he d. 16 Oct. 1858. The great majority of his pictures are concerned with S. Davids and Pembroke and Tenby, and he published a book, A Historical Account of Tenby, in 1818 (2nd ed. 1820). He was a ‘character,’ and Edward Laws (q.v.) has a lively article upon him in Arch. Camb., 1891 (the source of the D.N.B. article).
Bibliography:
- See also A. L. Leach, Charles Norris (Tenby, 1949), which has a list of his pictures. There are several examples of his work in the N.L.W.
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D., F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor.
