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Charles Adrian Scott Stokes (23 December 1854 – 30 November 1935) was an English
In 1884, he married Austrian artist Marianne Preindlesberger (1855–1927). She became a well-known artist under her married name of
''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. Retrieved 27 October 2013. Adrian Stokes was a landscape painter, concerned most with atmospheric effects, and later with decorative landscapes. He was the author of ''Landscape Painting'' (1925). He became ARA in 1909 and RA in 1919, won medals at the Paris Exhibition and Chicago World Fair (1889), became first President of the St Ives Society of Arts (1890) and became Vice President of the Royal Watercolour Society (1932). Marianne Stokes died during 1927. Adrian Stokes died during 1935. Both were buried at Mortlake Roman Catholic Cemetery, London. An obituary of Adrian Stokes was published in ''
File:Adrian Stokes Autumn in the Mountains.jpg, ''Autumn in the Mountains''
File:Adrian Stokes - Hunters on the moor north of Skagen - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Hunters on the moor north of Skagen''
File:Adrian Scott Stokes Dawn.jpg, ''Dawn''
Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections
* ''Stokes, (Charles) Adrian Scott (1854–1935)''. Magdalen Evans, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 201
, accessed 30 Nov 2010
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landscape
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painter. Born in Southport
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Southport lies on the Irish ...
, Lancashire
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, he became a cotton broker in Liverpool
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, where his artistic talent was noticed by John Herbert RA, who advised him to submit his drawings to the Royal Academy. He entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1872 and exhibited at the Academy from 1876.
Biography
From 1876, travelling toFontainebleau
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and Barbizon
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Demographics
The inhabitants are called ''Barbizonais''.
Art history
The Barbizon school of painters is name ...
, he came under the influence of French ''plein air'' landscape painters including Jules Bastien-Lepage
Jules Bastien-Lepage (1 November 1848 – 10 December 1884) was a French painter closely associated with the beginning of naturalism, an artistic style that emerged from the later phase of the Realist movement.
His most famous work is his lan ...
. He also painted genre works and portraits influenced by Frederic Leighton
Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, (3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896), known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was a British painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical, and classical subjec ...
, John Everett Millais
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and Parisians such as Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret
Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (7 January 1852 – 3 July 1929), was one of the leading French artists of the naturalist school.
Biography
He was born in Paris, the son of a tailor, and was raised by his grandfather after his father ...
.
In 1884, he married Austrian artist Marianne Preindlesberger (1855–1927). She became a well-known artist under her married name of Marianne Stokes
Marianne Stokes (née Preindlsberger; 1855–1927) was an Austrian painter. She settled in England after her marriage to Adrian Scott Stokes (1854–1935), the landscape painter, whom she had met in Pont-Aven. Stokes was considered one of the le ...
. The couple spent the summers of 1885 and 1886 at Skagen
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in the far north of Denmark
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where there was an artists' colony which became known as the Skagen Painters
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. There they struck up a close friendship with Michael
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and Anna Ancher
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Background
Ann ...
. After an extended stay in France, the couple returned to Britain where they settled in Cornwall
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at Carbis Bay
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and joining the artists' colony at St Ives in 1886. The couple travelled frequently to Tyrol
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and in 1905 to Slovakia
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.
In 1905, the couple made their first visit to Hungary
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, returning in 1907 and 1908.Magdalen Evans, "Stokes, (Charles) Adrian Scott"''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. Retrieved 27 October 2013. Adrian Stokes was a landscape painter, concerned most with atmospheric effects, and later with decorative landscapes. He was the author of ''Landscape Painting'' (1925). He became ARA in 1909 and RA in 1919, won medals at the Paris Exhibition and Chicago World Fair (1889), became first President of the St Ives Society of Arts (1890) and became Vice President of the Royal Watercolour Society (1932). Marianne Stokes died during 1927. Adrian Stokes died during 1935. Both were buried at Mortlake Roman Catholic Cemetery, London. An obituary of Adrian Stokes was published in ''
The Times
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'' on 2 December 1935.
Paintings
References
Literature
*External links
*Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections
* ''Stokes, (Charles) Adrian Scott (1854–1935)''. Magdalen Evans, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 201
, accessed 30 Nov 2010
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stokes, Adrian Scott People from Southport 1854 births 1935 deaths Royal Academicians 19th-century English painters English male painters 20th-century English painters Landscape artists Artists' Rifles soldiers St Ives artists Skagen Painters 19th-century English male artists 20th-century English male artists