Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (3 December 179318 May 1867) was an English painter best known for his large-scale paintings of

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. He was the father of the painter George Clarkson Stanfield and the composer

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Early life

Stanfield was born in

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, the son of James Field Stanfield (1749–1824) an Irish-born author, actor and former seaman, and Mary Hoad, an artist and actress. Stanfield was likely to have inherited artistic talent from his mother, who is said to have been an accomplished artist, but died in 1801. His father remarried, to Maria Kell, a year later. Stanfield was named after

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, the slave trade

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, whom his father knew, and this was the only forename he used, although there is reason to believe Frederick was a second one. He was briefly apprenticed to a coach decorator in 1806, but left owing to the drunkenness of his master's wife and joined a

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collier to become a sailor. In 1808 he was pressed into the

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, serving in the guardship HMS ''Namur'' at

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. Discharged on health grounds in 1814, he then made a voyage to China in 1815 on the

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''Warley'' and returned with many sketches.

Scenery

An accident forced Stanfield to leave active service, but during his voyages he had acquired considerable skill as a draughtsman. In August 1816 Stanfield was engaged as a decorator and scene-painter at the Royalty Theatre in Wellclose Square, London. Along with David Roberts he was afterwards employed at the

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, and in 1823 he became a resident scene-painter at the

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, where he rose rapidly to fame through the huge quantity of spectacular scenery and (moving)

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s which he produced for that house until 1834. Stanfield abandoned scenery painting after Christmas 1834, though he made exceptions for two personal friends: he designed scenery for the stage productions of

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, and for the amateur theatricals of

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Spectacles

Stanfield partnered with David Roberts in several large-scale

and

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projects in the 1820s and 1830s. The newest development in these popular entertainments was the "moving diorama" or "moving panorama." These consisted of huge paintings that unfolded upon rollers like giant scrolls; they were supplemented with sound and lighting effects to create a nineteenth-century anticipation of cinema. Stanfield and Roberts produced eight of these entertainments; in light of their later accomplishments as marine painters, their panoramas of two important naval engagements, ''the Bombardment of Algiers'' and ''The Battle of Navarino,'' are worth noting. An 1830 tour through Germany and Italy furnished Stanfield with material for two more moving panoramas, ''The Military Pass of the Simplon'' (1830) and ''Venice and Its Adjacent Islands'' (1831). Stanfield executed the first in only eleven days; it earned him a fee of £300. The Venetian panorama of the next year was 300 feet long and 20 high; gas lit, it unrolled through 15 or 20 minutes. The show included stage props and even singing gondoliers. After the show closed, portions of the work were re-used in productions of

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'' and Otway's ''

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''. The moving panoramas of Stanfield and other artists became highlights of the traditional

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Mature career

William Clarkson Stanfield - Mountainous landscape with a hunter and travellers

Meanwhile, Stanfield developed his skills as an

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painter, especially of marine subjects; he first exhibited at the

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at the 1820 Exhibition and continued, with only a few early interruptions, to his death. He was also a founder member of the

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(from 1824) and its president for 1829, and exhibited there and at the British Institution, where in 1828 his picture ''Wreckers off Fort Rouge'' gained a premium of 50

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s. He was elected Associate Member of the Royal Academy in 1832, and became a full Academician in February 1835. His elevation was in part a result of the interest of

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who, having admired his ''

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'' at the Academy Exhibition of 1831 (now in the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia), commissioned two works from him of ''

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'' (1832) and ''

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''. Both were displayed at the 1832 Academy Exhibition and remain in the

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. Until his death he contributed a long series of powerful and highly popular works to the Academy, both of marine subjects and landscapes from his travels at home and in France, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Ireland. Notable works include: *''The Battle of Trafalgar'' (1836), executed for the

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*the ''Castle of Ischia'' (1841), now in Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery *''Isola Bella'' (1841), among the results of a visit to Italy in 1839 *''French troops Fording the Magra'' (1847) *''HMS The Victory Bearing the Body of Nelson Towed into Gibraltar after the Battle of Trafalgar'' (1853), painted for Sir Samuel Morton Peto at

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, Suffolk (which is today open to the public) *''The Abandoned'' (1856; untraced since 1930) He also executed two notable series of Venetian subjects, one for the former dining room at Bowood House,

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, for the 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, the other for the

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at Trentham Park,

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. Neither house survives but some of Stanfield's work for Bowood can still be seen there (the present Bowood House and park, open to the public, is a conversion of the old stable block). He illustrated Heath's ''Picturesque Annuals'' for the years 1832–1834, and in 1838 published a collection of

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ic views on the

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and

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; forty subjects from both sides of the

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were also steel-engraved under the title of ''Stanfield's Coast Scenery'' (1836). Among literary works for which he provided illustrations were Captain Marryat's ''The Pirate and the Three Cutters'' (1836), ''Poor Jack'' (1840) and the lives and works of

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, and

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, mainly in editions by John Murray.

Assessment

Stanfield's art was powerfully influenced by his early practice as a scene-painter. But, though there is always a touch of the spectacular and the scenic in his works, and though their colour is apt to be rather dry and hard, they are large and effective in handling, powerful in their treatment of broad atmospheric effects and telling in composition, and they evince the most complete knowledge of the artistic materials with which their painter deals. The art critic

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considered his treatment of the sea and clouds of a very high order and called him the "leader of our English Realists." Wishing him to be sometimes "less wonderful and more terrible," Ruskin also pointed out the superior merits of his sketched work, especially in watercolour, to the often contrived picturesque qualities of many of his exhibited oils and the watercolours on which published engravings were based.

Death and legacy

In his last 10 years, Stanfield's health deteriorated. He died in

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, London, on 18 May 1867; there was an unfinished painting on his easel and a previous work, ''A Skirmish off Heligoland,'' hanging in a

exhibition. He was buried in Kensal Green Catholic Cemetery. Lifelong friend of Stanfield, the writer

, was one of the last visitors that Stanfield saw on the day he died. After Stanfield's death, Dickens wrote: "He was the soul of frankness, generosity and simplicity. The most genial, the most affectionate, the most loving and the most lovable of men. Success had never for an instant spoiled him . . . He had been a sailor once; and all the best characteristics that are popularly attributed to sailors, being his, and being in him refined by the influence of his Art, formed a whole not likely to be often seen." In 1870, three years after his death, Stanfield was awarded a major retrospective of his work at the inaugural Royal Academy Winter Exhibition. In its appraisal of the show, ''

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'' wrote: "There are no English painters whose works have won wider and warmer popularity outside the artistic pale. Stanfield's practiced command of the artist of composition, his unerring sense of the agreeable and picturesque in subject and effect, his pleasant and cheerful color and last, not least, the large use to which he turned his knowledge and love of the sea and shipping… (all) added to the widespread admiration he had won by his consummately skillful scene painting, (and) combined to make him one of the most popular, if not the most popular, of landscape painters."

Personal life

Stanfield was admired not only for his art but his personal simplicity and a modesty. He was born a

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and became increasingly devout in middle life, after the loss in 1838 of his eldest son by his second marriage (to Rebecca Adcock) and then, in the 1850s, both the children of his first marriage (to Mary Hutchinson, who had died in childbirth). His eldest surviving son, George Clarkson Stanfield (1828–1878) was also a painter of similar subjects, largely trained by his father. Another son,

(1835–1914) was an English Catholic priest who is noted for having composed several notable hymns. His daughter Harriet married W. H. G. Bagshawe, son of Henry Bagshawe, and was mother of Joseph Ridgard Bagshawe, also a marine painter.

Gallery

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A Market Boat on the Scheldt ''A Market Boat on the Scheldt'' is an 1826 oil painting by the British artist Clarkson Stanfield. A seascape, it depicts a boat on the River Scheldt transporting goods to market. Stanfield had served in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars a ...

'' (1826) File:Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793-1867) - On the Rhine, near Cologne - FA.188(O) - Victoria and Albert Museum.jpg, ''On the Rhine, near Cologne'', 1829 File:Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793-1867) - A View near Devizes, with Stoke Park, Erlestoke, in the Middle Distance - 1298318 - National Trust.jpg, ''A View Near Devizes'' (1829) File:Clarkson Stanfield (1793-1867) - Portsmouth Harbour - RCIN 404789 - Royal Collection.jpg, ''

'' (1831), Royal Collection File:Clarkson Stanfield (1793-1867) - The Opening of New London Bridge, 1 August 1831 - RCIN 404711 - Royal Collection.jpg, ''

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Venice from the Dogana ''Venice from the Dogana'' is an 1833 landscape painting by the British artist Clarkson Stanfield depicting the Grand Canal of Venice in Italy, seen from the Dogana da Mar. Venice, at the time part of the Austrian Empire, was a popular subject fo ...

'' (1833) File:Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793-1867) - The Canal of the Giudecca, and the Church of the Gesuati, Venice - N00407 - National Gallery.jpg, ''The Canal of the Guidecca, and the Church of the Gesuati, Venice'' (1836) File:Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793-1867) - Beilstein on the Moselle - P343 - The Wallace Collection.jpg, ''

Beilstein on the Moselle ''Beilstein on the Moselle'' is an 1837 landscape painting by the British artist Clarkson Stanfield. It depicts a view on the River Moselle at the village of Beilstein in the Rhineland. The scene is not far from the city of Koblenz. The ruins of ...

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On the Scheldt near Leiskenshoeck ''On the Scheldt near Leiskenshoeck'' is an 1837 oil painting by the British artist Clarkson Stanfield. A seascape it depicts a view of the River Scheldt close to Antwerp in Belgium on a windy day. A former sailor, Stanfield made his name as a s ...

'' (1837) File:SHIPS AT SEA ).jpg, ''Ships at Sea'' (1841) File:Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793-1867) - The Castle of Ischia from the Mole, Italy - TWCMS , G55 - Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens.jpg, ''

The Castle of Ischia from the Mole, Italy ''The Castle of Ischia from the Mole, Italy'' is an 1841 landscape painting by the British artist Clarkson Stanfield. It shows a view of a castle on the island of Ischia in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The work was inspired by a trip Stanfield made to Nap ...

'' (1841) File:Capture of the El Gamo.jpg, ''Capture of the El Gamo'' (1845) File:Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793-1867) - A Dutch Dogger Carrying away Her Sprit - 486-1882 - Victoria and Albert Museum.jpg, ''

On the Dogger Bank ''On the Dogger Bank'' is an 1846 oil painting by the British artist Clarkson Stanfield. It shows a fishing craft known as a Dogger at sail on the Dogger Bank in the North Sea during a storm. Showing the hazards of fishing in the rough seas, the ...

'' (1846) File:Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793-1867) - The Battle of Roveredo, 1796 - THC0069 - Royal Holloway, University of London.jpg, ''

The Battle of Roveredo ''The Battle of Roveredo'' is an 1846 history painting by the British artist Clarkson Stanfield. It presents a battle scene from the French Revolutionary Wars, depicting the Battle of Rovereto fought in Northern Italy in 1796 during the invasion ...

'' (1846) File:Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793-1867) - Coast Scene near Genoa - 501 - Fitzwilliam Museum.jpg, Coast Scene Near Genoa (1846) File:Clarkson Stanfield (1793-1867) - The Royal Yacht Passing St Michael's Mount - RCIN 400042 - Royal Collection.jpg, ''The Royal Yacht Passing St Michael's Mount'' (1847) File:Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793-1867) - In the Gulf of Venice, Italy - 730 - Guildhall Art Gallery.jpg, ''

In the Gulf of Venice ''In the Gulf of Venice'' is an 1848 landscape painting by the British artist Clarkson Stanfield. It depicts a view of the Gulf of Venice in the Adriatic Sea. It was likely based on a sketch Stanfield had made during a trip to Italy in 1838. ...

'' (1848) File:Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793-1867) - Macbeth and the Witches - L.F10.1890.0.0 - Leicester Museum ^ Art Gallery.jpg, ''

Macbeth and the Witches ''Macbeth and the Witches'' is an 1850 oil painting by the British artist Clarkson Stanfield. Combining landscape and history painting it is inspired by William Shakespeare's of the play ''Macbeth''. The scene is of bleak-looking Scottish mountain ...

'' (1850) File:Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793-1867) - Ancona and the Arch of Trajan - F.34 - Victoria and Albert Museum.jpg, '' Trajan's Arch, Ancona'' (1851) File:Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793-1867) - The Harbour of La Rochelle - WAG 2654 - Walker Art Gallery.jpg, ''The Harbour of La Rochelle'' (1852) File:Clarkson Stanfield - A Dutch Barge and Merchantmen Running out of Rotterdam - Google Art Project.jpg, ''A Dutch Barge and Merchantmen Running out of Rotterdam'' (1856) File:Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793-1867) - The Stack Rock, County Antrim - BELUM.U167 - Ulster Museum.jpg, ''The Stack Rock, County Antrim'' (1861) File:Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793-1867) - Shakespeare Cliff, Dover, 1849 - BHC1212 - Royal Museums Greenwich.jpg, ''

Shakespeare Cliff, Dover, 1849 ''Shakespeare Cliff, Dover, 1849'' is an 1862 landscape painting by the British artist Clarkson Stanfield. It depicts a view of Shakespeare Cliff near Dover on the coast of Kent. It depicts a scene of how the coast looked thirteen years earlier an ...

'' (1862), Royal Museums Greenwich

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, with ''The Pirate's Song off Tiger Island.'' *:1832, engraved by

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, *:1839, engraved by J Tingle, * , the painting engraved by

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