Frank Wilbert Stokes

[3] Later on Stokes spent nine years in England and France where he in Paris studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts under Jean-Léon Gérôme, the Académie Colarossi under Raphaël Collin and the Académie Julian under Gustave Boulanger.

[6][7] While on Snow Hill Island, on the Antarctic Peninsula, Stokes collected fossil bivalves, gastropods, ammonites, and a lobster.

[7] The nephropid lobster Hoploparia stokesi, the first arthropod to be described from Antarctica, was named after Stokes.

In 1909 and 1910 Stokes completed mural decorations at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

[4][5] Stokes had a number of exhibitions during his career, some which were held at the Brooklyn Institute Museum of Arctic and Antarctic Pictures in 1894, the Art Institute of Chicago February 27 through March 16, 1900[9] and in New York City December 21 through January 22, 1925 – 1926.