George Adolphus Storey

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George Adolphus Storey

RA (London 7 January 1834 – 29 July 1919) was an English portrait painter, genre painter and illustrator.[1]

Life

Grandmamma's Christmas Visitors (1873) oil on canvas

Storey was born in London and was privately educated attending Morden Hall School in Surrey.

Suffolk Street and the New Watercolour Society. He also published his autobiography in 1899, containing valuable information about the St John's Wood Clique, of which he was a member until he moved to Hampstead. From 1900, he was also the Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy, and became RA in 1914. Storey moved in the same artistic circles as James McNeill Whistler, with whom he was well acquainted. He also recalled being patted on head by Charles Dickens and became godfather to E. H. W. Meyerstein. He is interred at the Hampstead Cemetery
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Works in public galleries

Bibliography

  • Sketches from Memory, 1899
  • The Theory and Practice of Perspective, 1910
Storey by J. P. Mayall from Artists at Home, published 1884, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC

References

  1. ^ "Storey, George Aldolphus". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1688.
  2. ^ https://mertonhistoricalsociety.org.uk/morden/18th-and-19th-century-morden/ Merton Historical Society
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