Samuel Thomas George Evans was born in Eton, Buckinghamshire, England in 1829. his father, William Evans (1798-1877) was the Drawing Master at Eton College and he received much of his initial art training with him. He went to Paris to study in the atelier of the French painter François-Édouard Picot (1786-1868), However, within months of his arrival in the city, the Revolution of 1848 broke out and the studio closed. Following his return to England, Evans worked at Carey's studio in Bloomsbury, London, and then as a probationer and student at the Royal Academy Schools. He subsequently worked as a watercolour painter and exhibited frequently at the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours in London. He also showed at the Old Water Colour Society and Royal Academy in London; Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, and at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.