Artist
Clarkson Frederick Stanfield
British, 1793–1867
Clarkson Frederick Stanfield was a British British Romanticism artist. 31 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum. Clarkson Frederick Stanfield was born in Sunderland.
Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (3 December 1793 – 18 May 1867) was an English artist best known for his large-scale paintings of marine art and landscapes. A former sailor he became celebrated for his Romantic seascapes. Like his friend and colleague David Roberts he initially achieved recognition for his role as a scenic designer working at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane during the Regency era.
Stanfield is noted for his close friendship with fellow artists of the Royal Academy l Roberts, Edwin Landseer and Daniel Maclise as well as the writer Charles Dickens, with whom he often collaborated. He was the father of the painter George Clarkson Stanfield and the composer Francis Stanfield.
Works by Clarkson Frederick Stanfield
Seascape
Trajan's Arch, Ancona
Coast scene near Genoa
A Market Boat on the Scheldt
On the Rhine, near Cologne
A Dutch Dogger Carrying away Her Sprit
A View of Vietri in the Gulf of Salerno
The Seashore at Dover
View on the Scheldt
View on the Rhine
Sands near Boulogne
The Action and Capture of the Spanish Xebec Frigate 'El Gamo'
Shrimping
Ischia and the Castello d'Ischia, near Naples
HMS 'Victory' Towed into Gibraltar
The Action and Capture of the Spanish Xebeque Frigate El Gamo
Italian landscape
Val d'Orso
Tower and Mill at Andernach on the Rhine
Fort of Socoa, St. Jean de Luz, France
The Logan Rock
Street scene, Innsbruck, Tyrol
Two studies from Andrea del Sarto
Old Parnham Hall, Suffolk: the ‘Moat House’ of the poet Crabbe
31 works in the catalog · 24 shown
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