William Colebrooke Stockdale (1851 – 1890)

Lived at 64 Central Hill in 1891.

He was a landscape artist.  He is described as an artist of the old school, one of the men who thought it was not sufficient to paint pictures, but necessary also to be picturesque.  He was born in Yorkshire, but from youth to middle age was a pilgrim to all shrines of art and beauty in Europe.  Since then he has lived for many years secluded in the wildest and most romantic parts of Dartmoor.  He is 6 feet tall and has a beard.  He is described as wearing full knickerbockers and silver buckled shoes.  His studio coat is of the loveliest tint of purple-brown velvet, old and soft as the tones of a Persian carpet.  The sleeves are large, and open from wrist to shoulder.  Long, fine hair hangs from a singularly high forehead and his peculiarly slender fingered, nervous hands, are just those one associates with art and poetry.

His work appears in the London Illustrated News: