Walter William Acock, painter and educator, was born in England in 1847. He flourished in the 1870s and was known for still life and landscape paintings. He specialized in English scenes but did paint scenes of Tasmania where he traveled in the 1890s. He taught drawing in Croydon, South London and exhibited at the Suffolk Street Gallery in London. Acock’s career was cut short by blindness in 1903 and he died in England in 1933. The work of Walter William Acock is represented in the Museum of Croydon, England.