W. S. Stacey

Walter Sydney Stacey (1846-1929) was best known for his watercolours, illustrations, and genre and landscape paintings. He was born in Stockwell, London, and studied at the Royal Academy Schools. Stacey exhibited extensively throughout his life. Beginning in 1872, Stacey exhibited at the Royal Academy, and later at Society of British Artists, Suffolk Street, the Royal Society of British Artists, and the Newlyn Art Gallery. Stacey had six children, three sons and three daughters, with his wife Amy Stacey. They lived in Hampstead, London, between 1891 and 1902, and later moved to New Milton, Hampshire, and Newton Abbot, Devon. Stacey was a member of the Society of British Artists; the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours; and Vice President of the Old Dudley Art Society. In English Illustration: The Nineties (1975) James Thorpe complimented Stacey as "a graceful and deft artist with the pen" (139).

Further Reading

Thorpe, James. English Illustration: The Nineties. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1975. Print.

W S Stacey. Cornwall Artists Index. Ed. Helen Hoyle. The West Cornwall Arts Archive.