George Adolphus Storey

[1] Storey was born in London and was privately educated attending Morden Hall School in Surrey.

[2] He continued his education in Paris and on returning to London, he worked briefly for an architect before studying under J. M. Leigh and J.L.

Storey worked in North London, establishing a reputation as a genre and portrait painter, and also as an illustrator.

He also published his autobiography in 1899, containing valuable information about the St John's Wood Clique, of which he was a member until he moved to Hampstead.

Storey moved in the same artistic circles as James McNeill Whistler, with whom he was well acquainted.