Walter Stoye
Born 1886
Died 1974
Active: 1908 - 1935
Country of birth and death: England
Designer of silverware, teacher of chasing and repoussé, metal and enamel work
Stoye was a keen draughtsman who won a scholarship to the Central School of Arts and Crafts where he subsequently became a teacher in metal and enamel work. He also taught at the Brighton School of Art and the Camberwell School of Art. He is said to have joined the firm of Barkentin & Krall as a designer some time between 1912 and 1914. In 1915, he married Carl Krall's daughter Annie and succeeded his father-in-law as Managing Director after the First World War until it closed in 1935.
Stoye was a member of the Brighton Guild of Applied Arts and participated in an exhibition of work by members of the Guild at the Public Art Gallery in Brighton in 1911. He was also a member of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society and showed work in their exhibition at Grafton Gallery in London in 1912.
A presidential badge in gold and enamel designed by Stoye for the British Medical Association is illustrated in 'The Studio' May 1911 (p.316); and a wrought-silver tea service designed and made by him is illustrated in 'The Studio' February 1913 (p.24).
Information partly based on the Victoria and Albert Museum Collections database:
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O94638/coffee-pot-stoye-walter/ (accessed 15 August 2012) and also from information supplied by Arts-Search (arts-search.com).
Institutional and Business Connections
Teacher at Central School of Arts and Crafts
September 1908 - August 1909 (Presumed)
Listed as a teacher of chasing and repoussé in the department of Silversmiths' Work and Allied Crafts.
Teacher at Camberwell School of Art
September 1916 - June 1917
Listed as 'W. Stove' (sic) teacher of evening classes in jewellery. It is presumed this is a reference to Walter Stoye.
Worked for Barkentin and Krall Ltd.
1912 (Circa) - 1935
Is said to have joined the firm as a designer sometime around 1912, he married Annie Krall, daughter of Carl Krall, in 1915 and succeeded his father-in-law as Managing Director after the First World War until the business closed in 1935. (See the Victoria and Albert Museum Collections database:
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O94638/coffee-pot-stoye-walter/ accessed 15 August 2012)
Personal and Professional Connections
Related to Carl Cristof Krall
1911 (Circa)
Walter Stoye (1886-1974), designer, married Krall's daughter, Annie in 1915. Stoye is said to have succeeded his father-in-law as Managing Director of Barkentin & Krall after the First World War and stayed in this post until the firm closed in 1935.
Sources
London County Council Central School of Arts and Crafts. Prospectus & Time-Table for the Session Commencing 21 September 1908
21 September 1908
p. 2.
London County Council. Central School of Arts and Crafts. Prospectus & Time-Table of Evening Classes for the Session Beginning 20 September 1909
20 September 1909
p. 2.
Citing this record
'Walter Stoye', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib4_1250506776, accessed 09 Jun 2023]
