Robert Stark was born in Torquay, Devon, England on 1 May 1853 and studied at the National Art Training Schools in South Kensington in London and in Paris and Florence. He subsequently worked as a sculptor. He also taught modelling at the National Art Training Schools in South Kensington [later Royal College of Art] from 1883 to 1886, and possibly in c.1911. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the International Society of Sculptors, Painters & Gravers, New English Art Club, and Royal Society of British Artists in London; and at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. A bronze statuette entitled “An Indian Rhinoceros” by him was purchased for the Chantrey collection in 1892. In 1905 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors (FRBS).