and galleries and to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. A favourite museum was the V&A and he entered into a lively correspondence with the museum curators. Stanley was naturally fastidious, obsessive, a perfectionist. Everything had to be just so, in its rightful place. He particularly liked the works of – Kyffin Williams and John Piper and he was also known for his antiquarian interests, exemplified in the only memorial to Stanley in the Chesterfield Local Studies Library. Exhibitions Chesterfield Museum and Art Gallery. A selection of paintings by Stanley Dyson (1920–2007) has been exhibited at The Chesterfield Museum and Art Gallery alongside work from Dyson's former pupils. The exhibition was opened by Councilor Keith Morgan, Mayor of Chesterfield on Monday 7 February at 10 am 2011. The exhibition included topographical and general paintings by Dyson as well as a fine selection of pictures by his students. - References 1920 births 2007 deaths Alumni of Liverpool College of Art People from Old Whittington People from Chesterfield, Derbyshire People from North East Derbyshire District People from South Norfolk (district)