Philip Francis Stephanoff,
sometimes Francis Philip Stephanoff
(1787/88–1860) was an English painter.
Life
He was born in
Brompton Row, London. His father, Fileter N. Stephanoff, was a Russian who settled in England and worked painting ceilings and stage scenery, until he committed suicide around 1790; his mother Gertrude Stephanoff (died 7 January 1808) was a flower-painter with
Sir Joseph Banks
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Banks made his name on the 1766 natural-history expedition to Newfoundland and Labrador. He took part in Captain James Co ...
as patron.
James Stephanoff (1788?–1874), also an artist, was his elder brother.
Stephanoff became a popular painter of historical and domestic subjects, working both in oils and watercolours. He exhibited at the
Royal Academy
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and
British Institution
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from 1807 to 1845, and with the
Old Watercolour Society from 1815 to 1820.
His wife, Selina Roland, died suddenly. Stephanoff ceased to work as artist many years before his own death, which occurred at
West Hanham, near
Bristol
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, on 15 May 1860.
Works

Stephanoff's works ''The Trial of Algernon Sidney'', ''Cranmer revoking his Recantation'', ''Poor Relations'', and ''The Reconciliation'' were engraved; he also furnished designs for ''The Keepsake'' and other annuals. For
Sir George Nayler's sumptuous work on the coronation of George IV he drew in watercolours a series of costume portraits, which went to the
South Kensington Museum
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. At the
Westminster Hall
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competition in 1843 Stephanoff gained a prize of £100 for a scene from
John Milton
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's ''
Comus
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''.
Notes
External links
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* The painting, by
James Stephanoff, engraved by
Edward Francis Finden
Edward Francis Finden (1791–1857) was a British engraver.
Life
Finden was the younger brother, fellow-pupil, and coadjutor of William Finden, and shared his successes and fortunes.
Works
Finden executed some separate works, among early one ...
for the Forget Me Not annual for 1828, with illustrative verse by
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (14 August 1802 – 15 October 1838) was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L.
Landon's writings are emblematic of the transition from Romanticism to Victorian literature. Her first major b ...
* The painting was engraved by
Charles Heath
Charles Theodosius Heath (1 March 1785 – 18 November 1848) was a British Engraving, engraver, currency and stamp printer, book publisher and illustrator.
Life and career
He was the illegitimate son of James Heath (engraver), James Heath, a su ...
with illustrative verse by
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (14 August 1802 – 15 October 1838) was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L.
Landon's writings are emblematic of the transition from Romanticism to Victorian literature. Her first major b ...
entitled ''Legendary Fragments'' for The Keepsake annual, 1831.
;Attribution
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1780s births
1860 deaths
19th-century English painters
English male painters
Painters from London
English people of Russian descent
19th-century English male artists