thumb|Adrian Stokes; portrait by [[Michael Ancher]]

Charles Adrian Scott Stokes (23 December 1854 – 30 November 1935) was an English landscape painter. Born in Southport, Lancashire, he became a cotton broker in Liverpool, 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

thumb|Adrian Scott Stokes: Lago Maggiore

From 1876, travelling to Fontainebleau and Barbizon, he came under the influence of French plein air landscape painters including Jules Bastien-Lepage. He also painted genre works and portraits influenced by Frederic Leighton, John Everett Millais and Parisians such as Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret.

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 Arts Club (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 on 2 December 1935.

Paintings

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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

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References

Literature

  • Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections
  • Stokes, (Charles) Adrian Scott (1854–1935). Magdalen Evans, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2010 , accessed 30 Nov 2010