“Historical genre painter and illustrator. Son and pupil of Frank Stone. Exhibited
at the Royal Academy from 1858 and elsewhere. Elected Associate to the Royal Academy
in 1876, and became a full member to the Royal Academy in 1886. Mainly painted genre
scenes set in eighteenth-
(Biographical source: Wood, Christopher. The Dictionary of Victorian Painters. 2nd ed. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1978.)