Stanley Royle RBA, was an English post-impressionist landscape painter and illustrator who lived for most of his life in and around Sheffield, and in Canada, and was inspired by views of landscape, sea and snow.
20 Facts About Stanley Royle
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Senior was Painting Master at the art school, of whom Stanley Royle had a high opinion, and who exhibited at the Royal Academy.
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Stanley Royle was influenced by Anglo-Danish artist Sir George Clausen.
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Stanley Royle painted other versions of this subject, in which there is no figure, but this one, which was accepted by the Royal Academy in 1914 was and remains the main example of this genre.
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In 1916, Stanley Royle was successful in having two major works accepted by the Royal Academy.
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Stanley Royle's technique is impressionistic with almost a pointillist effect combined with broad sweeps of colour.
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Stanley Royle's health was sometimes poor, which prevented her from posing.
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In 1925, after resigning from the RSBA, Stanley Royle was elected an associate member of The Royal West of England Academy.
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In 1930 and 1931, Stanley Royle took a post as illustrator with the "Sheffield Independent" Newspaper.
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Stanley Royle visited Britain each summer, and eventually persuaded Royle to emigrate in December 1931, with his wife and daughter, to take up a post as a lecturer in painting there.
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Stanley Royle taught at the Nova Scotia School of Art until 1934 when he was dismissed by Nutt who saw him as a possible artistic rival.
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Stanley Royle considered the winter landscape to have more colour than at other times of the year.
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Stanley Royle became a full member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1942 and in 1945, he and his wife returned to the UK where he sojourned with his daughter and family in Suffolk before settling in north Nottinghamshire.
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Stanley Royle had a full and academic knowledge of every aspect of painting and an ability to capture the atmospheric quality of natural lighting on the landscape.
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Stanley Royle thought nothing of pitching his easel in the middle of a stream and standing knee deep in water, whatever the weather, if that gave him the view he wanted to capture.
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Stanley Royle did not like the harsh lighting effects of the midday sun as it flattened the subject, but preferred early morning or mid to late afternoon and evening light.
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Stanley Royle's publication explores the work and relationships of Sheffield's Canadian Artists which included Arthur Lismer and Frederick Varley as well as Stanley Royle.
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An exhibition of his work, The Great Outdoors - Paintings by Stanley Royle was held at Graves Art Gallery in 2015.
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Stanley Royle suffered from Bright's disease and this prevented him from joining the forces in the First World War.
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The group is made up of admirers and former pupils of Stanley Royle and was originally known as the Royalist Art Group.