Trevor Stubley
Trevor Stubley RP RBA RSW RWS was a Yorkshire portrait and landscape painter, and illustrator.
Stubley was born in Leeds and received art training at Leeds College of Art, and in 1953 at Edinburgh College of Art. He was a lecturer at Huddersfield School of Art from 1958 to 1960, afterwards working as a freelance artist from his own studio at Upperthong.
Stubley received 500 portrait commissions, illustrated over 400 children's books, and painted landscape watercolours in 18 countries for the last 23 years of his life. He exhibited within Yorkshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Ireland and the USA, and his paintings are held in private and public collections, particularly at the National Portrait Gallery, Windsor Castle, the Palace of Westminster, the British Library, various universities throughout the UK, and at his own gallery on the outskirts of Holmfirth.
From 1994 to 1999, Stubley served as Vice President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and was made an honorary member of the society in 2003. He died in Holmfirth, aged 77.
Prizes
- 1955 - Andrew Grant Major Travelling Scholar
- 1955 - William Hoffman Wood Gold Medal for Painting
- 1981–82 - Yorkshire TV Fine Art fellowship
- 1982 - Arts Council Award
- 1986 - Hunting Group Art Prize
- 1990 - Singer and Friedlander/Sunday Times Prize
Selected illustrated books
- Bradburne, Elizabeth S. Hey Diddle Dumpling; Schofield & Sims Ltd.
- Mayne, William The Yellow Aeroplane; Reindeer Books / Hamish Hamilton.
- Naughton, Bill The Goalkeeper's Revenge; London: Macmillan
- Boshell, Gordon Captain Cobwebb and the Mischief Man; Macdonald & Jane's.
- White, T. H. The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future; Berkley Medallion.
- Dale, Alan T. Portrait of Jesus; Oxford University Press.
- Cate, Dick Old Dog, New Tricks; Puffin Books.
- Pinto, Jaqueline The School Dinner Disaster; Hamish Hamilton Ltd.
- Andrews, Ian Boudica Against Rome ; Cambridge University Press.. Illustrated with Graham Humphreys.
- Escott, John Radio Alert; Puffin Books.
- Mahy, Margaret Clancy's Cabin; Puffin Books.
- Hardcastle, Michael Free Kick; Mammoth.