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

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, and then became a student at the

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, 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

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from 1842 to 1899. He was elected an associate on 23 April 1880, the last engraver made associate until the election of

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and

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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

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Works

Shadow of Death Stacpoole after Holman Hunt

Most of Stacpoole's plates were executed in a mixed mezzotint style (i.e.

mezzotint Mezzotint is a monochrome printmaking process of the intaglio (printmaking), intaglio family. It was the first printing process that yielded half-tones without using line- or dot-based techniques like hatching, cross-hatching or stipple. Mezzo ...

with some

line engraving Line engraving is a term for engraved images printed on paper to be used as prints or illustrations. The term is mainly used in connection with 18th- or 19th-century commercial illustrations for magazines and books or reproductions of paintings. ...

and

stipple engraving Stipple engraving is a technique used to create tone in an Intaglio (printmaking), intaglio print by distributing a pattern of dots of various sizes and densities across the image. The pattern is created on the printing plate either in engraving ...

). His work was only of reproductions, including a large number of prints after

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(chiefly published by Messrs. Agnew), Thomas Faed (chiefly published by Messrs. H. Graves), and

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. He also engraved pictures by others.

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, Sir Francis Grant, Sir John Watson-Gordon,

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, Jerry Barrett,

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, John Frederick Tayler, A. Bouvier,

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, and

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. Among Stacpoole's successful engravings were the ''Shadow of Death'', after

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(1877), and ''Pot Pourri: Rose Leaves and Lavender'', after

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(1881). Popular subjects were the ''Palm Offering'', after

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(1868), and ''

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'', after

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(Lady Butler) (1874). Stacpoole's first Royal Academy exhibit (1842) was an oil portrait, and he exhibited six other paintings (portrait, subject, and landscape) at the Academy between 1843 and 1869, but from 1858 to 1893 his regular contributions were engravings. He also exhibited paintings at the

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between 1841 and 1845. Two of his earliest published engravings were after Edwin Landseer, both with other engravers: ''Peace'' with T. L. Atkinson (1848), and the ''Hunted Stag'' (engraved as ''Mountain Torrent'') with

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(1850) (these both after pictures from the

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, which went to the

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). During the last ten years of his life he again took up painting, sending five small subject pictures to the Royal Academy between 1894 and 1899.

Family

In 1844 Stacpoole married Susannah Atkinson, and had issue four daughters and one son.

Notes

;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Stacpoole, Frederick 1813 births 1907 deaths 19th-century British painters British male painters 20th-century British painters English engravers Associates of the Royal Academy 19th-century British male artists 20th-century British male artists 20th-century British engravers