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Lilian Stannard (1877-1944) was an English illustrator and painter, primarily of watercolours. She was one of the select group of 'garden painters' that included George Samuel Elgood and Helen Allingham whose primary subject was the English garden. A prolific artist, whose work became widely known through reproductions, first showed at the Royal Society of British Artists in 1898 and exhibited twenty-eight watercolours of garden scenes at the Royal Academy of Arts between 1902 and 1930. She also exhibited at the Society of Women Artists, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Walker Art Gallery, Royal Cambrian Academy and held a large number of solo shows, especially at the galleries of Arthur Ackermann & Son and the Mendoza gallery in London. Illustrations of her work were used for a series of postcards and were included in Horace and Walter Wright's popular gardening volumes: The Perfect Garden (1908), Beautiful Flowers and How to Grow Them (1909) and Popular Garden Flowers (1911)