Henry John Sylvester Stannard RBA FRSA (12 July 1870 – 21 January 1951) was a British watercolour artist whose patrons included the British Royal Family.

[3] In his work, Stannard typically depicted pastoral scenes and the rural idyll.

[6] In 1906 Stannard was honoured by Queen Alexandra with a commission for a number of pictures including Her Majesty’s Wild Garden and Woods at Sandringham.

[9] In 1922 he held an exhibition with his daughter at Brook Street Galleries in London where Queen Mary became a patron of his colour drawings.

[3] In 1917 he married Violet Page and after their divorce in 1933 he married for the fourth time, Wilhelmina Fordyce, with whom he had a son William Henry Lawrence Stannard (1934-2001), an occasional painter who exhibited with his father.