historian Derek Clifford, writing in the 1960s, also reserved his praise for Sillett's still life works, noting that only one landscape painting, The Old Oak at Winfarthing (1817), which the historian Josephine Walpole describes as his best known work, has a similar delicacy of touch. Walpole, who finds his watercolours more appealing than his monochrome topographical studies of churches, has noted that his landscapes are usually rather small in size. Sillett's still lifes, which were produced in both watercolour and oil, are praised by Walpole for being highly finished although stylistic, with large carefully depicted flower heads placed in characteristically small vases. According to Walpole, his 1803 watercolour Garden Mallows, now kept in the British Museum, skilfully achieved the desired effect of showing petals that are both strongly coloured and virtually transparent. According to the author Harold Day, Sillett was considered by his peers to have great integrity. He described Sillett's early landscapes as characteristically primitive and displaying "a delightful ability to handle paint", noting his mastery of tone and the beautifully depicted skies in his moonlit scenes. Day compared Sillett's copper engravings and depictions of figures with those of John Crome, whose influence is discernible, as well as reserving praise for his paintings of flowers, describing them as being "of good colour, carefully drawn and well composed". Though not of outstanding artistic quality, they are important for modern historians, as the appearance of many buildings Sillett drew has altered substantially since the 1820s, and other buildings have since been demolished. Clifford, who considered Sillett as being multi-talented, has described them as having a "pleasantly sensitive simplicity". His works now sell in his home country and in the United States for high prices: with his oil painting Auricula Primrose fetching £32,200 at auction in 1996. His 1830 Still-life with Peaches, Apples, Grapes, Plums, Cherries and Gooseberries in a Dish with Hazelnuts and a Snail on a Ledge (54 x 66.3cm), which was sold in London in 1993, fetched £8,625. The oil painting Kings Lynn, Norwich and Lynn Stagecoach with Figures and Children (35 x 26cm) was sold at auction in Hazlemere in 2016, for £5,200. Admiral, Earl Nelson realised £9,650 in September 2004. Galleries Still lifes and botanical illustrations Landscapes and buildings Notes References Bibliography External links 305 works relating to James Sillett (including 189 images) held in the Norfolk Museums Collections. 14 works by James Sillett shown in the