Frederick Stacpoole
Frederick Stacpoole (1813 – 19 December 1907 London) was a British engraver, who produced reproductions of some of the most popular paintings of the Victorian period. Life He was apparently son of Edmund Stacpoole, lieutenant R.N., whose death was reported in the ''Navy List'' of January 1816, and whose widow subsequently married a naval captain named Jefferies. He received an education in Ghent, and then became a student at the Royal Academy Schools, gaining two silver medals in December 1839 for a drawing from the antique, and in 1841 for the best copy made in the painting school. He concentrated on engraving. Stacpoole was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy from 1842 to 1899. He was elected an associate on 23 April 1880, the last engraver made associate until the election of Frank Short and William Strang in 1906, and retired from active membership in 1892. He died in London (at his home at 88 Clarendon Road, Putney) on 19 December 1907, and was buried in Brompto ...
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