Lilian Stannard

She was one of the select group of 'garden painters' that included George Samuel Elgood and Helen Allingham[1] whose primary subject was the English garden.

[12] Her initial London showing in 1898 at the Royal Society of British Artists was atypical of her subsequent work being a watercolour study of a Small tortoiseshell and Cornflowers.

[1] In June 1906 a solo exhibition of fifty-two watercolours at the Mendoza Gallery entitled Summer Gardens of England[14] was patronised by the Princess of Wales who bought, The Lover's Walk, Wavendon House.

[2] Many of England's grandest gardens and houses were represented: Woburn Abbey, Penshurst Place, Hampton Court, Levens Hall are all featured.

[2] Stannard held a series of solo exhibitions in the 1920s and 30s at venues that included Arthur Ackermann's New Bond Street gallery[18] and Cambridge University.

Her vibrant use of colours and the nostalgia that was evoked by her depictions of grand and cottage gardens remained popular but largely ignored by art critics and historians.