Elected ARSA: 12 November 1862
Elected RSA: 10 February 1885
George Clark Stanton was born in Birmingham in 1832. He was educated in King Edward’s Grammar School and afterwards entered the Birmingham School of Art. He began his career as a designer and modeller with the firm Elkington and Mason and was then sent by them to study in Italy where he remained for some time.
In 1855 he came to Edinburgh and in 1857 he exhibited for the first time in the Annual Exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy. He executed several statues for the niches of the Scott Monument and thereafter primarily focussed on portrait busts and medallions. He then turned his attention to painting in oil and watercolour and was employed as a book illustrator.
Stanton was a regular visitor to the RSA Life School and influenced a great number of its students in the nineteenth century.
