A portrait of the artist James Stark, a leading member of the Norwich School of Painters. Inscribed in pencil at the top of the rolled sheet of paper which Stark is holding, 'Scenery of the/Yare & Waveney' (both rivers in Norfolk). This is presumably a reference to the Scenery of the Rivers of Norfolk, engraved from Stark's pictures by Edward Goodall, William Miller and others, with a text by J. W. Robberds (1827-34). Love's portrait of Stark's friend J. C. Cotman is also in the NPG.