Marcus Stone
Marcus Clayton Stone ( born July 4, 1840 in London, † March 24, 1921 ibid ) was an English painter and illustrator.
Life
The son of the painter Frank Stone was trained by his father. In 1876 he moved with his wife, Laura, Mary Howard Broun a house in Melbury Road No. 8 in London's Kensington, which was designed by Richard Norman Shaw as an artist studio and three inputs had: one for the family, the servants and the models. The house was later occupied by the film director Michael Powell and is now part of English Heritage. Stone 1876 candidates for membership in the Royal Academy (Associated Royal Academician, shortly also associate or ARA) and 1886 a full member (RA). His obituary in the Times on March 26, 1921 to shine through a certain vanity ". Marcus Stone, lovers of art and cats admirer suave clothes and his own elegance and gentility "
Work
Marcus Stone presented before his 18th birthday at the Royal Academy of Arts from ( the painting At Rest showed an aging knight who is resting under a tree) and did this every year until 1920. In his early works he often treated historical events. He celebrated his first major success as 1864 with the painting On the Road from Waterloo to Paris, showing the defeated Napoleon Bonaparte, who has sought refuge after the battle of Waterloo on the flight to Paris were simple farmers. With great technical skill and charm he began in his later works, a soulful genre scenes, often in the style of the 18th century or the Empire and against the backdrop of a lush garden. Some of the scenes depicted are reminiscent of the works of Jane Austen and also be used to illustrate.
Stone illustrated the novel Our Mutual Friend, and several other works of Charles Dickens. The still young painter was the first illustrator that Dickens chose after the end of the collaboration with his illustrator Hablot Knight Browne previous. The novel was first published in monthly issues, each containing 32 pages of text and two illustrations. Dickens was Stone unusually large freedom Illustrations and expressed satisfaction with the results. He also advised the artist to the publisher John Murray and Thomas Longman on. The illustrated by Stone edition of Great Expectations was chosen by readers of the newspapers The Guardian and The Observer as the most beautiful illustrated classic 2011. Stone also worked on Dickens ' journal Cornhill Magazine and illustrated the novel He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope.
Engravings and reproductions of Stones works were very popular and helped Stone to wealth. Nevertheless, he wrote towards the end of his life: " At no time I brought the work to an image without the distinct feeling of failure to an end. Exhibit A picture is, as one would publish the evidence of his incapacity. "