George Adolphus Storey RA
1834 - 1919
Born in London and educated in Surrey and Paris, George Adolphus Storey worked briefly for an architect and for a sculptor before entering the Royal Academy Schools in 1854. As a young artist, he was strongly affected by the fashionable work of the Pre-Raphaelites, as can be clearly understood in the open-eyed naturalism and attention to detail of his watercolours of the late 1850s. Under the influence of Charles Robert Leslie, Storey later turned away from the Pre-Raphaelites to more generalised, High Victorian genre painting and portraiture. His 1899 autobiography contains many stories of the St John’s Wood set, of which he was for a long time a member. In 1900, he was appointed Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy.
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