(1854 - 1935)
Adrian Scott Stokes was born in Southport, Merseyside; the son of a barrister and an inspector of schools. He was a cotton broker before entering the Royal Academy Schools in 1872. In 1876 he moved to France, remaining for ten years and concentrating on landscape painting while studying under Dagnan Bouveret. In 1884 he married Austrian painter Marianne Preindlesberger. When the couple returned to England they took a studio in Kensington, before settling at Carbis Bay and later at St Ives. Stokes travelled widely, visiting Spain, Italy, Holland and Austria. He became President of the St Ives Society of Arts in 1890, a member of the Royal Academy in 1919 and Vice President of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1932. He died in London, aged 80.
