Henry Stannard

Henry John Sylvester Stannard RBA FRSA (12 July 1870 – 21 January 1951) was a British watercolour artist whose patrons included the British Royal Family.[1][2]

Henry John Sylvester Stannard

RBA FRSA
Born(1870-07-12)12 July 1870
London, England
Died21 January 1951(1951-01-21) (aged 80)
Bedford, Bedfordshire, England
Known forWatercolour artist

Life

Henry John Sylvester Stannard was born in London on 12 July 1870,[3] the son of Henry Stannard, a sporting painter, and Annie (née Willsher).[1][4]

Stannard and his father descended from a family of well known Bedfordshire artists.[4][5] He was educated at Bedford Modern School,[1][6] and the National Art Training School in South Kensington.[1][3] He was elected RBA in 1896.[1]

In his work, Stannard typically depicted pastoral scenes and the rural idyll.[7][8] He exhibited fifteen works at the Royal Academy (including “The Old Homestead”, “The Trees Began to Whisper” and “The Trysting Lane”), the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, the New Gallery, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art.[1]

In 1906 Stannard was honoured by Queen Alexandra with a commission for a number of pictures including Her Majesty’s Wild Garden and Woods at Sandringham.[9] In 1922 he held an exhibition with his daughter at Brook Street Galleries in London where Queen Mary became a patron of his colour drawings.[9] In 1934 he was commissioned by the Governors of Guernsey to paint a view of St Fermain’s Bay and the harbour, a painting that was subsequently presented to the Prince of Wales.[9] In 1936 he painted a view of the Prince of Siam's gardens at Virginia Water, and in 1937 two of his water colours of the River Dart were hung in the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours.[9]

Stannard married firstly, Annie (née) Clark with whom he had two children, Theresa Sylvester Stannard (1898-1947), who was also an artist, and John A.S. Dyer Stannard.[4] In 1933 he married, secondly, Wilhelmina Fordyce.[4] Stannard died in Bedford on 21 January 1951.[1]

  • Happy moments at Wenhaston Mill, Suffolk
  • A typical rural scene with thatched cottage near Flitwick in spring
  • The Old Homestead
  • A Country Lane
  • Panorama of Jerusalem
  • Sheep on a Country Lane at Dusk

Notes
  1. "Stannard, H. Sylvester, (1870–21 Jan. 1951), Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U243268. ISBN 978-0-19-954089-1.
  2. Dolman, Bernard (1990). Who's who in Art. ISBN 9780900083136. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  3. Lester, p. 30
  4. Lester, Family Tree of the Stannard Family
  5. Checklist of Painters from 1200-1994. 3 June 2014. ISBN 9781134264063. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  6. Underwood, Andrew (1981). Bedford Modern School of the black & red. worldcat.org. p. 259. ISBN 9780950760803. OCLC 16558393.
  7. Vincent, Adrian (1987). Rural life. ISBN 9780718128739. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  8. "Country Life". google.co.uk. 1991. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  9. The Eagle, The Magazine of Bedford Modern School, July 1937, Vol.XXI. No. 3

References

Lester, Anthony J. The Stannards of Bedfordshire: A Family of Watercolour Painters Patronized by Royalty. Published January 18, 1984 ISBN 0-902010-11-5

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