Brian Julian Warry Stonehouse MBE (29 August 1918 – 2 December 1998) was an English painter and Special Operations Executive agent during World War II.

Stonehouse worked as an artist but joined the Territorial Army after the outbreak of World War II.

In the autumn of 1941, he was training for a commission in the 121 Officer Cadet Unit when the Special Operations Executive contacted him.

As a result, German direction-finders triangulated his position and the Milice arrested him on 24 October 1942 in Chateau Hurlevent [fr] near Lyon.

[1] At the camp he witnessed the arrival of four female SOE agents, Andrée Borrel, Vera Leigh, Diana Rowden and Sonya Olschanezky, who were all executed and disposed of in the crematorium to make them disappear without a trace, under the programme of "Nacht und Nebel" ("Night and Fog").

In 1985, Stonehouse painted a poignant watercolour of the four women from memory which now hangs in the Special Forces Club in London.

After the war, he remained in the military and was promoted to captain while working for the Allied Control Commission in Frankfurt, Germany where he assisted with the interrogation of Gestapo and SS members.

[4] After 1946, Stonehouse continued his career as a fashion artist in the United States, painting for magazines including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Elizabeth Arden.

This last collection included a signed photograph and note from Eisenhower upon meeting Stonehouse again shortly after the war ended.