1-273-607 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Marcus Stone, artist and Associate of the Royal Academy, 1882. A popular and influential Victorian genre painter, Stone (1840-1921) was trained by his father Frank, also an artist, and first exhibited at the Royal Academy when aged just 18. He went on to become an Associate of the Academy in 1877 and a Royal Academician in 1887. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (Conducted by G. C. Whitfield.) (London, 1876-1883).