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Stone, Frank

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From: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Date: 20040101
Author:IAN CHILVERS

Stone, Frank ( b Manchester, 22 Aug. 1800; d London, 18 Nov. 1859). English painter and illustrator. He began his working life as a cotton spinner and was evidently self-taught as an artist. Initially he concentrated on watercolours but later took up oils. His work included portraits and sentimental genre scenes. He was a friend of Charles Dickens, whom he helped with his theatrical productions, and knew several other writers, including William Makepeace Thackeray, whose portrait he painted ( c. 1839, NPG, London). His son Marcus Stone ( b London, 4 July 1840; d London, 24 Mar. ...

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