Teresa and Charles were both noted as ‘Artist (Oil Painter)’ in the 1861 census. Charles exhibited fruit and flower subjects at the British Institution from 1854 to 1867 and the Royal Academy from 1859 to 1868: after 1871 he switched entirely to landscape painting and died in 1907. His wife Jane (née Jane Maria Bowkett, 1837–1891) showed genre pieces at the BI from 1860 to 1862 under her own name, from Folkestone, and appears to have married him in 1862/1863 since she continued to do so, 1864–1867, as Mrs Charles Stuart from their early Stepney address. There are three works by her on Art UK, a late one at Aberdeen (c.1886) and two at Barrow in Furness: two of ten by her husband are early fruit pieces (one dated 1862) the rest his later landscapes.

There was also a Miss G. E. Stuart, who may have been a sister of William senior, and was a flower painter. She exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1848 and as ‘Miss Stuart’ at the BI, 1849–1855 excepting 1852, from the same address. From at least 1841 – though she may not have lived there, since not present there for the 1841–1861 censuses – this was the ‘Manor House’, Stepney, also numbered 22 Stepney Causeway. The latter was the version consistently used by William junior in the RA catalogues (only) from 1846 until he moved to 5 Arbour Square, Stepney from 1856 to 1858 (though given as 22 Arbour Street at the RA). These were his final appearances at the RA, BI and Society of British Artists before emigrating to Australia later in the year.

William Stuart – who also only showed once at the RA in 1848 (A calm and A gale) – continued exhibiting into the 1860s up to at least the last BI show of 1867, when it closed. In the 1841 census his occupation is given as ‘Artist’; in that of 1851 both he and his son William are both listed as ‘School Teacher’, and William senior again as ‘Artist (Oil Painter)’ in 1861. By 1871 the family had moved to a better address at 4 Constitution Crescent, Gravesend: William had done well enough to retire, being noted as ‘Annuitant and Fundholder’ and Teresa was no longer listed as an artist. Charles (‘Artist’), his wife Jane (no profession stated) and their three children – a boy of 8 and two girls aged 5 and 1 – also then lived there. William probably died either in London (St George’s Hanover Square district) in the third quarter of 1874 or possibly at Brighton in the first quarter of 1879. By 1881 Teresa (then noted as 50) had married a marine artist, William Woodley (48), and they were living with an adopted 11-year-old daughter, Constance, at 235 Burrage Place, Plumstead. Teresa’s widowed mother, Amelia, lived with them and died there in the first quarter of 1882.

Pieter van der Merwe and Osmund Bullock, from census and registry data; the biography of William Stuart at ‘Design and Art Australia Online’ (daao.org.au).