^{In the nineteenth century, still life art was often assigned to women, influenced by the hierarchy of genres that was established by the French Royal Academy. However, Eloise Harriet Stannard excelled and was recognised as the greatest still life painter of England. Daughter of landscape painter Alfred Stannard and niece of the marine and landscape artist Joseph Stannard, both prominent members of the Norwich School of painters, the first provincial art movement in the UK. Her works were mainly influenced by seventeenth century Dutch still life, in particular by the artist Jan van Huysum (1682-1749). She was particularly gifted in setting her fruit arrangements on a luminous surface, thanks to her several layers of colour and fine and almost invisible brushwork. It is this luminosity and richness in the colours, noticeable also in Still life of strawberries and honeysuckle, that made Eloise Stannard one of the most talented still life painters in Great Britain. She exhibited from1852 at the British Institution, the Royal Academy of Art, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Glasgow Institute and she was also nominated a member of the Society of Women Artists in 1871. Some of her known works are hung at Norwich Castle, which contains the largest collection of work by the Norwich School of painters.}