Stanley Berkeley

Stanley Berkeley was a noted painter and etcher of military subjects. Born in the mid 19th century, he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy from 1881 and was elected to the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers & Engravers in 1884. During a successful career, he illustrated books and newspapers from his base at Surbiton Hill in Surrey and he married another noted artist, the genre and landscape painter Edith Berkeley. Known today particularly for his colourful, vibrant military paintings, Stanley Berkeley died in 1909.