Engraver and painter. Born in Bristol, the son of an engraver Alfred E Anderson, Stanley had his initial art education in the city, having been apprenticed to his father’s business as an heraldic engraver at 15. He attended the Royal College of Art, 1909–11, and Goldsmiths’ College School of Art, but insisted that he was greatly self-educated in art, especially in the British Museum and National Gallery. From the time he won a British Institution Engraving Scholarship in 1909 Anderson marked his course as an outstanding engraver. His delineation of several dozen country craft subjects, which occupied about 20 years from the early 1930s, is a remarkable record, the engravings being meticulously accurate and beautifully composed. Anderson was for many years a member of the engraving faculty at the British School at Rome and in 1938 was chosen by the British Council as the sole British representative of line engraving and drypoint at the Venice Biennale.