Marcus Stone (British, 1840-1921) (56 works)

Marcus Stone - English genre painter, b. in London in 1840, he first studied with his father, the watercolorist Frank S. (d. 1859), but was finally educated without the help of mentors thanks to his trips to Italy and Paris, where he learned much of the latest French techniques painters.

He began to appear with his works before the public in 1858, but only in 1863 he gained fame with the painting “From Waterloo to Paris.” Of his other paintings, in which he is especially successful with female figures and historical everyday scenes, the best are recognized as: “The Fake Key” (1866), “An Old Letter”, “A Stopped Duel”, “Queen Catherine spies on Henry VIII’s courtship of Anne Boleyn” (1870), “The Royal Nursery” (1871), “Edward II and Peter Gaveston”, “The Childless Widow”, “The Rejected Proposal”, “Sain et sauf” (1875), “The Time of Roses” and others. etc. Even more than his paintings, Stone’s popularity was gained by his drawings, which were published in various publications. By the way, he illustrated the works of Dickens and Trollope and delivered originals for polytypes to The Graphic and Cornhill Magazine.