Self Portrait by Henry Stacy Marks
Many of his early pictures were on Shakespearian themes, but it is for his later pictures of birds that he is best known, many of them arising from work he did at London Zoo for the exhibition Birds in Bond Street (1889) by the Fine Art Society. Marks's pictures were typically light-hearted rather than weighty, and as Gleeson White correctly predicted in 1909, 'It would not be astonishing if [his pictures] retained the respect of future collectors long after many far more ambitious contemporary works ceased to charm'. — Rupert Maas (catalogue note)
Paintings
- Self Portrait
- Dogberry's Charge to the Watch / A Council of War
- Cowper at Olney [Cowper Walking in the Gardens at Weston Underwood, Buckinghamshire]
- Doctors Differ
- Falstaff's Own
- The Bookworm
- What Is It?
- Capital and Labour
- Science is Measurement
- Where Is It?
- A Treatise on Parrots
- A Select Committee
Bibliography
Atkinson, J. Beavington. "English Painters of the Present Day. XIV – H. S. Marks." The Portfolio I (1870): 129-34.
Fenn, William Wilthew. "Our Living Artists: Henry Stacy Marks, R.A." The Magazine of Art II (1879): 97-100.
"Henry Stacy Marks, R.A." The Biograph and Review IV (November 1880): 387-391
Leslie, George D. "'In Memoriam': HENRY STACY MARKS, R.A.: born Sept. 13, 1829: died Jan. 9, 1898." Magazine of Art Vol. 22 (1898). 237-42. Internet Archive (Open Court Publishing Co.). Web. 23 October 2023.
Marks, Henry Stacy. Pen and Pencil Sketches. 1894, 2 vols.
Radford, Ernest. "Henry Stacy Marks." Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement, Vol. III, 140-41.
Created 23 October 2023