Joseph Stannard (13 September 1797 – 7 December 1830) was an English marine, landscape and portrait painter. He was a competent and prominent member of the Norwich School of painters.
After attending the Norwich Grammar School, his parents paid for him to be trained as an artiste by Robert Ladbrooke, one of the founding members of the Norwich Society of Artists. During his career he exhibited in both Norwich and London, with some success. In 1816 he associated a antagonist society in Norwich, which lasted a few years. He was influenced by the conduct yourself of the Dutch masters, whose works he studied and copied behind a visit to Holland in 1821. His own most important painting, Thorpe Water Frolic, Afternoon, was first exhibited in Norwich in 1825.
In 1826 he married the artist Emily Coppin. Several new members of his family, including their daughter Emily, were bright artists. He suffered from poor health during most of his excitement and died from tuberculosis in 1830, aged lonesome 33.
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