Friday 31 December 2021

Clarkson Frederick Stanfield - part 7

Clarkson Frederick Stanfield R.A.
albumen print
Royal Academy of Arts, 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 - 6 also.

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


1846 A Love Story
illustration to 'The Battle of Life' by Charles Dickens
wood-engraving 9.8 x 7 cm
© The Trustees of the British Museum

1846 A Love Story
illustration to 'The Battle of Life' by Charles Dickens
wood-engraving 11.2 x 7 cm
© The Trustees of the British Museum

1846 The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens published by
Bradbury & Evans
Illustrations were by Stanfield, Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, and John Leech
Battlefield in Sunset
block cut by Thomas Williams 10.7 x 7 cm

1846 The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens published by
Bradbury & Evans
Illustrations were by Stanfield, Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, and John Leech
View of an Inn
wood engraving by Thomas Williams 9.8 x 7.1 cm

1846 The Decoration of the Garden Pavilion in the grounds of Buckingham Palace
(Various artist contributors)
engraving 16.2 x 27.5 cm

1847-54 Scotland Delineated
Barnbogle Castle
lithograph printed with grey tone-block by Kames Leighton Leitch
27.5 x 40.4 cm

1847-54 Scotland Delineated
1852 Dunbar
lithograph by Léon Jean Baptiste Sabatier 30.7 x 45.7 cm

1847-54 Scotland Delineated
1852 Edinburgh, from the firth of Forth
lithograph printed with beige tone-block by James Duffield Harding
28.8 x 40 cm

1847-54 Scotland Delineated
1852 Rothsay Castle, Island of Bute
lithograph by Lowes Cato Dickinson

1848 The Allegro & Il Penseroso of Milton,
issued by the Art Union
Ancona
wood engraving by W.T. Green
11 x 15.2 cm

1848 The Allegro & Il Penseroso of Milton,
issued by the Art Union
Ruined Church
wood engraving by W.T. Green
11.3 x 15.6 cm

1848 The Haunted Man by Charles Dickens 
Four sailors climbing on mast in storm
wood engraving by Thomas Williams
12.5 x 7.7 cm

1848 The Haunted Man by Charles Dickens 
Lord Keep My Memory Green
block cut by Thomas Williams
11.4 x 7 cm

1848 The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith by
John Forster
1848 (The President's Dinner) at the Royal Academy in
Somerset House in 1767-1776
wood engraving by Thomas Williams
13.7 x 8.5 cm

c1848 View of an Eastern Fortress
etching and engraving by James Harfield Kernot
15 x 22.5 cm

1850 Sketches after English Landscape Painters published by Marvy and Thackeray
Landscape with a Wagon
etching, aquatint and soft-ground etching by Louis Marvy
20.8 x 26 cm

1851 Illustration to 'Rhine Song' from Watt's
'Lyrics of the Heart'
etching and engraving

1852 Landscapes by Eminent English Masters
No.9 Grecian Temple
lithograph with white printed highlights by Willaim Gauci
49 x 31.2 cm

1852 Landscapes by Eminent English Masters
No.15 Coast Scene
lithograph with white printed highlights by William Gauci
30.8 x 48.2 cm

1854  In the Gulf of Venice
etching and engraving by Robert William Wallis
published in The Art Journal
25-3 x 33.6 cm

1854 Portsmouth Harbour
etching by Robert Brandard
32.1 x 44.8 cm

1854 The opening of the New London Bridge
etching and engraving by Thomas Abiel Prior
23.5 x 32.2 cm

1857 Works of the Sketching Society
1857 Flora and Zephyrus
colour photomechanical reproduction
28.8 x 24.6 cm

1857 Works of the Sketching Society
1857 Giving a Lesson
colour photomechanical reproduction
24.5 x 33.8 cm

1859 Vietri, illustration to 'The Art Journal'
etching and engraving by William Miller
24.3 x 32.5 cm

1868 The Abandoned
(printed in The Leisure Hour)
wood engraving 13.3 x 23.5 cm
Royal Academy of Arts, London

n.d. The Abandoned
wood engraving 13 x 22.5 cm
Royal Academy of Arts, London

1883 The Tiber
etching by William Finden
14.8 x 15 cm

c1900 The Tower of London
lithograph after a watercolour by Stanfiled

1905-06 Portsmouth Harbour
photogravure 29 x 40 cm

n.d. Cologne with bridge in the distance
etching 6.3 x 9.2 cm
© The Trustees of the British Museum

n.d. Fight on a Quayside
wood engraving 9.8 x 8.3 cm

n.d. Mountain Village
engraving by Charles Heath
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

n.d. Seascape in approaching Storm
lithograph 18 x 25.7 cm

n.d. St Michaels' Mount (?)
engraving and etching, printed on chine collé
by Robert William Wallis
15.1 x 22.6 cm

n.d. St. Michael's Mount, in Cornwall
etching and engraving by William Le Petit
22.4 x 28.5 cm

n.d. The Dungeon of Chillon
etching and engraving by Edward Finden
15 x 10 cm

n.d. The Wreck of the Swift
wood engraving by W.T. Green
17.3 x 11.9 cm

n.d. Vegetation of Victoria
View of a Valley
etching by James Redaway
22.3 x 29.5 cm

n.d. View of a Church
block cut by Thomas Williams
6.2 x 7.3 cm

n.d. View of a river flowing across a town
etching by Robert Brandard
15.1 x 22.9 cm

n.d. View of Lake Como
etching by Robert William Wallis
published in a Landscape Annual
9.9 x 13.5 cm

n.d. Untitled
engraving by R. Welles
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne


Wednesday 29 December 2021

Clarkson Frederick Stanfield - part 6

Clarkson Frederick Stanfield
albumen print 8.7 x 5.4 cm
Royal Collection Trust

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 - 5 also.

This is part 6 of a 7-part series on the works of Clarkson Frederick Stanfield. 


1836 Stanfield’s Coast Scenery, continued from part 5:

1836 Calais
engraved by W. Finden
line engraving 9.4 x 13.9 cm Tate, London

1836 Dartmouth Castle
engraved by J. Stephenson
line engraving 8.7 x 14 cm
Tate, London

1836 Dartmouth
engraved by J.B. Allen
line engraving 9.3 x 14.3 cm
Tate, London

1836 Dieppe
engraved by W.B. Cooke
line engraving 9.5 x 14 cm
Tate, London

1836 Dover Pier
engraved by J.W. Appleton
line engraving 9.2 x 14 cm
Tate, London

1836 East Cliff, Hastings
engraved by J. Stephenson
line engraving 9.1 x 14.1 cm
Tate, London

1836 Eddystone Lighthouse
engraved by W.B. Cooke
engraving 9.5 x 14.1 cm
Tate, London

1836 Falmouth from the Mills
engraved by J. Cousen
line engraving 13.3 x 10.4 cm
Tate, London

1836 Hastings from the Sea
engraved by W. Miller
line engraving 9.3 x 14 cm
Tate, London

1836 Havre de Grâce
engraved by W. Miller
line engraving 9.2 x 14 cm
Tate, London

1836 St Michael’s Mount, Cornwall
engraved by J. Stephen
line engraving 8.7 x 14 cm
Tate, London

1836 St Malo
engraved by J.C. Armytage
line engraving 9.2 x 14.2 cm
Tate, London

1836 Rye Old Harbour, Blockade Station
engraved by J.W. Appleton
line engraving 9 x 13.8 cm
Tate, London

1836 Roque de Guet, Guernsey
engraved by J.C. Armytage
line engraving 9.7 x 15.3 cm
Tate, London

1836 Ramsgate
engraved by J.C. Bentley
line engraving 9.9 x 14.2 cm
Tate, London

1836 Powderham Park, Exmouth
engraved by E. Finden
etching 9.4 x 14 cm
Tate, London

1836 Portsmouth Harbour
engraved by W.J. Cooke
line engraving 9.1 x 14.2 cm
Tate, London

1836 Porchester Castle
engraved by W. Floyde
line engraving 14.3 x 10.2 cm
Tate, London

1836 Martello Tower
engraved by W.B. Cooke
etching 9.2 x 14.2 cm
Tate, London

1836 Land’s End, Cornwall
engraved by J.W. Kernot
line engraving 9.5 x 14 cm
Tate, London

1836 St Pierre Port
engraved by W. Finden
line engraving 9.3 x 14 cm
Tate, London

1836 Stonehouse Bridge, Plymouth
engraved by W.B. Cooke
etching 9.3 x 14 cm
Tate, London

1836 The Approach to St Malo
engraved by R. Brandard
etching 9.2 x 14 cm
Tate, London

1836 The Coast of Brittany, near Doll
engraved by J. Cousen
line engraving 9.1 x 14 cm
Tate, London

1836 The Grèves from the Summit of Mount St Michael
engraved by T. Higham
etching 9.5 x 14 cm
Tate, London

1836 The Hamoaze, Plymouth
engraved by J.C. Armytage
line engraving 9.7 x 15.1 cm
Tate, London

1836 The Needles
engraved by G. Bradshaw
line engraving 9.6 x 14.1 cm
Tate, London

1836 The Semaphore, Portsmouth
engraved by W. Finden
line engraving on paper 9.5 x 14 cm
Tate, London

1836 Worthbarrow Bay, Dorsetshire
engraved by J.W. Appleton
line engraving 9.5 x 14.1 cm
Tate, London

1840 Poor Jack by Frederick Marryat:

1840 Poor Jack
Title Page

1840 Anderson reading the Bible to Jack
engraving

1840 Jack standing on the Beach
wood engraving by Ribert Branston
12.5 x 12 cm

1840 Nanny relating her Story
engraving

1840 Sir J. O'Conner and Mrs. St. Felix
engraving

1842-49 Waverley Novels (after Frederick Clarkson Stanfield):

Cliff near Arbroath, Coast of  Fofearshire
steel engraving by J.Y. Willmore
8.8. x 14.7 cm

Convent of St. Jude
steel engraving

Craignethan Castle Lanarkshire
steel engraving by Brandard
8.4 x 14.4 cm

Dumbarton Castle
steel engraving by J. Murdock
9.3 x 14.1 cm

Germany, Cologne (Koln) from  the River Rhine
steel engraving by William Miller
8.6 x 13.7 cm

Kinfauns on the River Tay
steel engraving by W. Forrest
8.4 x 23.1 cm

Loch Lomond and Ben Lomond  from below Tarbet
steel engraving by W.B. Smith
9.2 x 14.2 cm

Loch Tay from above the village  of Killin
steel engraving by E. Goodall
8.3 x 14.4 cm

North Queensferry, Fife
steel engraving by E. Finden
12.2 x 18.2 cm

Perth and the River Tay
steel engraving by J. Cousen
9.1 x 14.3 cm

View from James Court, Edinburgh c7170
steel engraving by William Miller
8.8 x 14 cm

York Minster
engraving by William Miller

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1838 The Fisherman's Return
(The Book of Gems: the modern poets and artists of Great Britain, London 1838)
steel engraving 5.9 x 8.3 cm
Royal Academy of Arts, London

1840 A Perilous Situation
lithograph by William Gauci
21.2 x 29.3 cm

1840s Constantinople for "Mr. Murray's New And Complete Edition of The Life & Works of Lord Byron"
etching by E. Finden
16.2 x 10.4 cm
V&A, London

1842-54 Water-mills and Church at Eu
wood engraving 10 x 14.3 cm