Clarkson Frederick Stanfield - part 3

Clarkson Frederick Stanfield
photograph by William Frederick Price
albumen print
National Portrait Gallery, 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 see part 1 , and for earlier works, see parts 1 & 2 also.

This is part 3 of a 7-part series on the works of Clarkson Frederick Stanfield:

1856 Off Calais
oil on panel 41.5 x 57 cm
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK

1856 On the Texel, Holland
oil on canvas 61 x 91 cm
Guildhall Art Gallery, London

1856 View Of Lago Maggiore with
People on the Quay in Angera
oil on canvas 60 x 106 cm

1857 Calais Fishermen
oil on canvas 77.5 x 122.7 cm
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, UK

1857 Calais Fishermen taking in their Nets – Squall coming on
oil on canvas 63.5 x 124.5 cm
Glasgow Museums Resource Centre (GMRC)

1857 Ischia and the Castello d'Ischia, near Naples
oil on panel 31.4 x 60.9 cm
V&A, London

1857 Ischia and the Castello d'Ischia, near Naples
detail

1858 Boats going out, Etretat (attributed to)
pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash and white gouache, over traces of graphite, on blue wove paper
17.3 x 25.1 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1858 Etretat (attributed to)
pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash and white gouache, over traces of graphite, on blue wove paper
17.2 x 25.1 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1858 Etretat (attributed to)
pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash and white gouache, over traces of graphite, on blue wove paper
17.2 x 25.1 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1858 Etretat (attributed to)
pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash and white gouache, over traces of graphite, on blue wove paper
17.2 x 25.1 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1858 Etretat (attributed to)
pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash and white gouache, over traces of graphite, on blue wove paper
17.3 x 25.2 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1858 Gulf of Salerno
oil on panel 35.6 x 53.2 cm
Sudley House, Liverpool, UK

1858 Lago di Garda, Italy
oil on canvas 70.5 x 110.3 cm
Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, UK

1858 Old Holland
oil on canvas 122 x 107 cm
Guildhall Art Gallery, London

1858 On the Coast of Brittany
oil on canvas 75 x 120.5 cm
Bury Art Museum, UK

1858 On the Coast of Brittany
detail

1858 On the Coast of Brittany
detail

1860 Ostende Fishing Boat (attributed to)
pen and brown ink, with brush and grey wash, over traces of graphite, on blue wove paper 15.7 x 24.1 cm
 Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1861 The Stack Rock, County Antrim
oil on canvas 38 x 61.2 cm
Ulster Museum, Belfast

1862 Coastal Scene
oil on canvas 44.6 x 66.2 cm
Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, UK

1862 Shakespeare Cliff, Dover, 1849
oil on canvas 74.9 x 91.4 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

1862 Shakespeare Cliff, Dover, 1849
detail

1863 The Morning after Trafalgar
oil on canvas 64.6 x 106.4 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

n.d. A Busy Shipping Lane off Liverpool
oil on canvas 90 x 150 cm
Historic Environment Scotland

n.d. A Difficult Passage: Hannibal crossing the Alps
brush drawing in brown and grey wash, over graphite
26.2 x 36,4 cm
© The Trustees of the British Museum

n.d. A Dutch Mill
oil on canvas 61 x 45.7 cm
Glasgow Museums Resource Centre (GMRC)

n.d. A Fishing Boat with Dutch Ships in a Harbour
oil on canvas 49.5 x 68.6 cm
Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, UK

n.d. A Frigate in a Storm
watercolour, heightened with white 27.7 x 43.3 cm
© The Trustees of the British Museum

n.d. A Hulk moored at a Quayside
watercolour with touches of body-colour on greenish-brown paper 24.4 x 34.7 cm
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

n.d. A River Shore
oil on canvas 36.8 x 45.1 cm
National Museum Wales, National Museum Cardiff, UK

n.d. A Tower and Ruin at Amalfi
graphite, with watercolour and heightened with white; on grey-green paper 34 x 23.8 cm
© The Trustees of the British Museum

n.d. A Windmill near Fécamp, Normandy
watercolour 19.2 x 25.6 cm
© The Trustees of the British Museum

n.d. After a Storm
oil on millboard 21.5 x 33 cm
Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham

n.d. Against Wind and Tide
oil on canvas 85.8 x 111.4 cm
The Box, Plymouth, UK

n.d. Amalfi (Birthplace of the Mariner's Compass)
oil on canvas 165.1 x 238.8 cm
National Trust, UK

n.d. Bligh Sands, Sheerness
oil on canvas
Indianapolis Museum of Art

n.d. Boats at Sea
oil on panel 16.6 x 24.2 cm
Watford Museum, UK

n.d. Boys at Peepshow in Street
brush and grey and brown wash, with graphite, on ivory wove paper 32.4 x 44.2 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

n.d. Brighton, East Sussex, from the Sea
oil on panel 25.4 x 34.3 cm
Museum of Gloucester, UK

n.d. Coast Scene
oil on canvas 36.8 x 52.2 cm
Museums Sheffield, UK

n.d. Countrymen at Dinner
pencil and watercolour 35.5 x 34 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

n.d. Dutch Shipping Vessels taking the Brill
oil on canvas 102.2 x 127.6 cm
Dundee Art Galleries and Museums Collection
(Dundee City Council), UK

n.d. Edwy and Elgiva
brush and brown and grey wash, over traces of black chalk, on ivory wove paper 32.4 x 44.8 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

n.d. Fishing Barges off the South Foreland
oil on canvas 33.5 x 51 cm
Dover Collections, UK

n.d. Fishing Smacks (Royal Sea with a Buoy and Shipping)
oil on canvas 74.3 x 127 cm
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, UK

n.d. Havre de Grâce, France
pen and brown ink, watercolour and body-colour with gum arabic and scratching out 38.7 x 45.7 cm

n.d. Italian Buildings
graphite & watercolour on paper
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust), London

n.d. Italian Coast Scene
oil on canvas 39.4 x 48.4 cm
Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, UK