Clarkson Frederick Stanfield - part 2

Clarkson Stanfield by John Philip Simpson
oil on canvas 76 x 63.5 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich, London

Clarkson Frederick Stanfield went to sea at eleven to escape apprenticeship to a drunken coach painter, was pressed into the Royal Navy in 1812, then took up scene painting at the Royalty Theatre, London after being discharged for injury in 1816. Known for stunning romantic effects, often created in partnership with David Roberts, the artist introduced moving dioramas into Christmas pantomimes and Easter spectacles, titled "Adventures of a Ship of War" (1825), "Napoleon’s Passage of the Simplon" (1830) and "Niagara" (1832). While touring painted panoramas around major British and European cities, Stanfield contributed to the exhibitions of the British Institution and Royal Academy, and was elected Associate at the latter in 1835 through the support of the "Sailor King" William IV. In 1844, he became first curator of the Naval Gallery at Greenwich.

For a more comprehensive biography of Stanfield, and for earlier works, see part 1 also.

This is part 2 of a 7-part series on the works of Clarkson Frederick Stanfield:

c1839 A Rocky Bay
oil on panel 31.8 x 48.3 cm
V&A, London

c1840 Le Hocq Tower, Coast Scene
oil on panel 22 x 29 cm
Government House, Jersey, St. Saviour, UK

c1840 Le Hocq Tower, Coast Scene
detail

1842 The Logan Rock
watercolour 25.6 x 17.6 cm
© V&A, London

before1844 Oude Scheld - Texel Island, looking towards Nieuwe Diep and the Zuider Zee
oil paint and bitumen on canvas 100.3 x 125.7 cm
Tate, London

before1844 Oude Scheld - Texel Island, looking towards Nieuwe Diep and the Zuider Zee
detail

1844 The Morning after the Wreck
oil on canvas 153 x 232.4 cm
Museums Sheffield, UK

1845 The Action and Capture of the Spanish Xebec Frigate 'El Gamo'
oil on canvas 132.1 x 183.9 cm
V&A, London

c1845 Portrait of David Roberts
pen and brown ink on wove paper 19 x 15.3 cm
Royal Academy of Arts, London

1846 A Dutch Dogger carrying away her Sprit
oil on canvas  76.2 x 107.5 cm
© V&A, London

1846 Coast Scene near Genoa
oil on canvas 71.4 x 112.4 cm
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

1846 The Battle of Roveredo 1796
(preparatory work for the larger painting)
oil on panel 39 x 60 cm
Private Collection

1846 The Battle of Roveredo 1796
oil on canvas 182.8 x 274.2 cm
Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham

1846-47 The Royal Yacht Passing St Michael's Mount
oil on panel 30.1 x 45.8 cm
Royal Collection Trust

1846-47 The Royal Yacht Passing St Michael's Mount
detail

1847 Falstaff, probably a Portrait of Samuel Phelps, Actor
watercolour, touched with white, over graphite 43.8 x 33.3 cm
© The Trustees of the British Museum

1848 In the Gulf of Venice, Italy
oil on canvas 71 x 102 cm
Guildhall Art Gallery, London

1848 Shrimping
oil on millboard 31.7 x 49.2 cm
V&A, London

1848 St Michael's Mount
watercolour and white body-colour 20.8 x 45 cm
Royal Collection Trust

1848 St Michael's Mount
detail

c1848 Amalfi, Birthplace of the Mariner's Compass
oil on canvas 165 x 239 cm
National Trust, Penrhyn Castle, Bangor, UK

1849 At Dover
watercolour and body-colour 17.7 x 25.4 cm

1849 Tilbury Fort- Wind Against Tide
oil on canvas
(details not found)

c1849 The Seashore at Dover
oil on canvas  42.6 x 62.9 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

1850 Macbeth and the Witches
oil on canvas 80.6 x 132.1 cm
Leicester Museum & Art Gallery, UK

c1850s The Battle of Agincourt
design for a theatre backdrop
oil on paper 27.3 x 35 cm
V&A, London

1851 A Coast Scene with Fishing Boats
oil on canvas 63.5 x 86 cm
National Trust, Tyntesfield, Bristol

1851 Ancona and the Arch of Trajan
oil on canvas 90.2 x 156.2 cm
V&A, London

1851 Oxwich Bay
oil on canvas 74 x 125 cm
Guildhall Art Gallery, London

1851 View of Nantes
graphite & watercolour on paper
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust), London

1851 View of Nantes
detail

1851 View of Saintes
graphite, watercolour and gouache on paper 33 x 49.5 cm
Tate, London

1851 View of the Pic du Midi d'Ossau in the Pyrenees
watercolour, heightened with white, over black chalk, on buff paper 47.8 x 33.7 cm
© The Trustees of the British Museum

1852 A View of Dordrecht
oil on canvas 49.5 x 106.7 cm
York Art Gallery, UK

1852 The Harbour of La Rochelle
oil on canvas 129.5 x 178.5 cm
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK

1852 The last of the Crew
oil on canvas 59.6 x 90 cm
Museums Sheffield, UK

c1852 HMS 'Victory' towed into Gibraltar
oil on millboard 28.9 x 44.5 cm
V&A, London

1853 A breezy day on the Normandy Coast
oil on canvas 91.5 x 168 cm
Astley Hall Museum and Art Gallery, Chorley, UK

1853 A breezy day on the Normandy Coast
detail

1853 A Thames Barge running downwind off Tilbury Fort
oil on canvas 61 x 92.1 cm
Yale Center for British Art, Newhaven, CT

1853 The Last of the Crew
oil on canvas 83.5 x 121.5 cm
Manchester Art Gallery, UK

1854 Terracina Tower, Italy
oil on canvas 36 x 51 cm
Guildhall Art Gallery, London

1854 View of the Pic du Midi d'Ossau in the Pyrenees, with Brigands
oil on canvas 213.2 x 152.3 cm
Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham

1855 A View of Vietri in the Gulf of Salerno
(a later copy by Stanfield of an 1840 painting)
oil on canvas 41 x 61.2 cm
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford

1855 Act Drop for 'The Lighthouse' Play
distemper 264 x 256 cm
Charles Dickens Museum, London

1855 Men-of-War off Portsmouth, Hampshire
oil on canvas 47 x 77 cm
Guildhall Art Gallery, London

1855 River Scene
oil on panel 32.1 x 25.9 cm
Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, UK

1855 The Mouth of the Texel
oil on canvas 60 x 90.5 cm
Bury Art Museum, UK

1856 A Dutch Barge and Merchantmen running out of Rotterdam
oil on canvas 78.7 x 121.9 cm
Yale Center for British Art, Newhaven, CT

1856 A Dutch Barge and Merchantmen running out of Rotterdam
detail