Stanfield, Clarkson Frederick

Venice, Delphi and the castle of Chillon are among the destinations in these prints after Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, whos...

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Venice, Delphi and the castle of Chillon are among the destinations in these prints after Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, whose years at sea gave him a marine painter's feeling for water and distant horizons. Stanfield (1793–1867) worked at sea and then as a theatrical scene painter before establishing himself as a landscape and marine artist. His designs were engraved for nineteenth-century illustrated publications, including works associated with Finden and Fullarton. Italian views include Padua, Verona, Tivoli and the Tiber, and Greek subjects Corfu, Corinth and Ithaca, while the Swiss lakes, Portuguese coastal architecture and scenes connected with India take the journey further. Boats, waterfronts, mountains and ruins recur throughout.

Venice, Delphi and the castle of Chillon are among the destinations in these prints after Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, whose years at sea gave him a marine painter's feeling for water and distant horizons. Stanfield (1793–1867) worked at sea and then as a theatrical scene painter before establishing himself as a landscape and marine artist. His designs were engraved for nineteenth-century illustrated publications, including works associated with Finden and Fullarton. Italian views include Padua, Verona, Tivoli and the Tiber, and Greek subjects Corfu, Corinth and Ithaca, while the Swiss lakes, Portuguese coastal architecture and scenes connected with India take the journey further. Boats, waterfronts, mountains and ruins recur throughout.

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