Marcus Stone

Marcus Stone (photo, ca.1880)

Marcus Clayton Stone (born July 4, 1840 in London , † March 24, 1921 there ) was an English painter and illustrator .

Life

The painting Edward II and his favorite, Piers Gaveston from 1872 is typical of Stone's early work.

Marcus Stone, son of the painter Frank Stone , was trained by his father. In 1876 he and his wife Laura Mary Howard Broun moved into a house at number 8 Melbury Road in the London borough of Kensington , which was designed by Richard Norman Shaw as an artist's studio and had three entrances: one each for the family, the servants and the models . The house was later inhabited by the film director Michael Powell and is now part of the English Heritage . Stone was in 1876 candidates for membership in the Royal Academy ( Associated Royal Academician , associate or ARA for short ) and in 1886 full member ( RA ). A certain vanity shines through his obituary in the Times of March 26, 1921: "Marcus Stone, lover of art and cats, admirer of urbane clothing and his own elegance and refinement."

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Typical of the later work: In Love from 1888.

Marcus Stone exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts even before his 18th birthday (the painting At Rest showed an aging knight resting under a tree) and did so every year until 1920. In his early works he often dealt with historical events. He celebrated his first great success in 1864 with the painting On the Road from Waterloo to Paris , which shows the defeated Napoleon Bonaparte who, after the Battle of Waterloo, sought refuge with simple peasants on his flight to Paris . With great craftsmanship and charm, he captured soulful genre scenes in his later works , often in the style of the 18th century or Empire and against the background of a lush garden. Some of the scenes shown are reminiscent of Jane Austen's works and are also used to illustrate them.

Etching from our mutual friend from 1864.

Stone illustrated the novel Our Mutual Friends and several other works by Charles Dickens . The still young painter was the first illustrator that Dickens chose after the end of his collaboration with his previous draftsman Hablot Knight Browne . The novel was initially published in monthly partial editions, each of which contained 32 pages of text and two illustrations. Dickens gave Stone a lot of freedom with the illustrations and was satisfied with the results. He also recommended the artist to the publishers John Murray and Thomas Longman. The Stone illustrated edition of Great Expectations was voted the Most Beautiful Illustrated Classic in 2011 by readers of The Guardian and The Observer . Stone also worked on Dickens' journal Cornhill Magazine with and illustrated the novel He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope .

Engravings and reproductions of Stone's works enjoyed great popularity and made Stone rich. Nevertheless, towards the end of his life he wrote: “At no point have I finished working on a picture without a clear sense of failure. Exhibiting a picture is like publishing evidence of your inability. "

literature

Marcus Stone. ArtMagick, accessed on May 28, 2012 .
Allingham, Philip V .: Marcus Stone, RA (1840-1921): Painter and Illustrator. The Victorian Web, accessed May 28, 2012 .
Ackroyd, Peter: Dickens . Harper Collins, New York 1990.
Blackett-Ord, Carol: Marcus Clayton Stone. In: Later Victorian Portraits Catalog. National Portrait Gallery, accessed May 28, 2012 .
Storey, Graham: The Letters of Charles Dickens, Volume Ten: 1862-1864 . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1998, ISBN 0-19-812294-2 .
Portrait of Marcus Stone. In: Virtual Museum. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, accessed May 28, 2012 .

Web links

Commons : Marcus Stone - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ See Virtual Museum.
^ "Marcus Stone, lover of arts and cats, devotee of gentlemanly attire, and of his own elegance and refinement." Quoted from Blackett-Ord.
↑ See Allingham and Blackett-Ord.
↑ See Blackett Ord.
↑ See Artmagick.
↑ For example the painting In Love as the cover picture of Mansfield Park in the 2010 edition by Anaconda Verlag .
↑ See Ackroyd, pp. 941-943 and Storey, p. 365.
↑ Top 10 classics - vote for the most beautiful book. The Guardian, October 6, 2011, accessed June 6, 2012 .
^ "At no time have I brought the production of a picture to a conclusion without a keen sense of failure. To exhibit a picture is like publishing evidence of incapacity. ”Quoted from Blackett-Ord.

personal data
SURNAME	Stone, Marcus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Stone, Marcus Clayton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH	4th July 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH	London
DATE OF DEATH	March 24, 1921
Place of death	London

[Kensington-1] See Virtual Museum.

[2] "Marcus Stone, lover of arts and cats, devotee of gentlemanly attire, and of his own elegance and refinement." Quoted from Blackett-Ord.

[3] See Allingham and Blackett-Ord.

[Blackett-Ord-4] See Blackett Ord.

[5] See Artmagick.

[6] For example the painting In Love as the cover picture of Mansfield Park in the 2010 edition by Anaconda Verlag .

[7] See Ackroyd, pp. 941-943 and Storey, p. 365.

[8] Top 10 classics - vote for the most beautiful book. The Guardian, October 6, 2011, accessed June 6, 2012 .

[9] "At no time have I brought the production of a picture to a conclusion without a keen sense of failure. To exhibit a picture is like publishing evidence of incapacity. ”Quoted from Blackett-Ord.