Albert George Stevens was born in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. England in 1863. He initially trained in the medical profession, but instead decided to pursue a career as an artist and studied art at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp. Following his return to England he visited the North-East and spent some time in the Yorkshire village of Staithes where there was a growing colony of artists. In 1901 he was a founding member of the Staithes Art Club. The following year he settled in nearby Whitby where he remained for the rest of his life. Stevens painted almost exclusively in watercolours. His subjects ranged from marine, coastal, landscape and genre scenes to portraits. He exhibited with the Yorkshire Union of Artists, as well as at the International Society of Sculptors, Painters & Gravers, Royal Academy, and the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in London; and at the Walker Art Gallery.