STEPHENS, Henry Channing
Henry Channing Stephens was born at Liverpool on 24 December 1871, son of Thomas English Stephens (19 March 1838-12 January 1912), a barrister, and his wife Mary Louisa Rowe, third daughter of the late Henry Rowe of Liverpool, who married at Hope Street Church, Liverpool on 9 July 1867. In 1891, Henry was a 19-year-old art student, boarding at Old Steine, Brighton, Sussex, a boarding house kept by Jessie Wilson but ten years later is noted as a medical student. He married at Uckfield, Sussex in 1910, Sibyl Bright-Smith (29 March 1889-2 April 1921), former wife of George Lenny Norsworthy (1889-1978), who was a minor when she first married and was granted a decree nisi on 13 October 1909. In 1911, Henry was a 38-year-old 'on private means', living at 15 Heathcote Street, St Pancras, London with his 22-year-old wife Sybil, the home of his 73-year-old father Thomas English Stephens. After the death of Sibyl in 1921, Henry married secondly at Steyning, Sussex in 1930, Clarice Augusta Lendon (4 January 1884-8 December 1975), who died at Downing House Nursing Home, 10 Fonnereau Road, Ipswich. Henry exhibited at the Ipswich Art Club in 1933 from 'Old Thatches', Preston, near Lavenham, Suffolk, an oil 'When I Consider how my Night was Spent'. In 1939, he and his wife Clarice, were living at 2 Walpole Terrace, Brighton when he is described as an 'artist-portrait & landscape'. Henry Channing Stephens died at The Old Croft, Elmsett, Hadleigh, Suffolk on 1 July 1954.
Works by This Artist
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Henry Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)Oil on canvas
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August Strindberg (1849-1912)Oil on canvas
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