(1888 - 1961)
Born in Stalybridge, Stanley Royle grew up in Sheffield and attended Sheffield College of Art. He exhibited work early in his career at the Royal Academy and the Paris Salon and became a member of the Royal Society of British Artists (1920). In 1931 he moved to Canada to teach at the Nova Scotia College of Art, later becoming Professor of Drawing and Painting at Mount Allison University, New Brunswick. Royle was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy in 1942, then returned to England in 1945 and settled in Sheffield. A successful artist, he is known primarily for his landscape paintings for which he was awarded a silver medal at the Paris Salon in 1951 and a gold medal in 1955.
