ONE of the region’s best known artists and illustrators has died.
Trevor Stubley passed away on January 5. He was 77.
Leeds-born Mr Stubley trained at Leeds College of Art and Edinburgh Art College before he was posted to Cyprus for two years’ national service.
On his return to England he taught briefly at Huddersfield School of Art before becoming a full-time professional artist.
He illustrated about 400 children’s books between 1960 and 1980 and painted approximately 500 commissioned portraits including actress Dame Judi Dench, writer Keith Waterhouse and playwright JB Priestley.
His most famous sitter, however, was HRH Queen Elizabeth II, who he painted for the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1986.
Mr Stubley painted thousands of watercolours of landscapes across Europe.
His talent placed him in the top rank of British artists.
His paintings are in numerous private and public collections.
In 1955, he won the Andrew Grant Major Travelling Scholarship and the William Hoffman Wood Gold Medal for Painting.
He also won a £5,000 Sunday Times art prize.
He was Vice-President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters from 1994 to 1999, and in 2003 was made an honorary member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
He became an honorary member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
Mr Stubley ran his self-titled gallery on Greenfield Road, above Holmfirth.
A retrospective exhibition of his career was held at the North Light Gallery, Armitage Bridge, in 2004.
