Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793-1867), Marine and landscape painter

A painting by Sir D. Macnee is in the Royal Scottish Academy, exhibited RA, 1859 (ii); another painting by Macnee was recorded in the collection of Robert Napier by J. C. Robinson, West Shandon Catalogue (1865), p 61; a painting called Stanfield by an unknown artist is in the Sunderland Art Gallery; a painting called Stanfield was with Spink and Son, reproduced Country Life, CXXXVI (1964), 397; Stanfield appears in 'The Sketching Society, 1836' by J. Partridge, which was in the collection of W. A. Brigg of Kildwick Hall, Keighley, 1913, exhibited RA, 1838 (408); a related water-colour and a lithograph by J. Hogarth of 1858 are in the British Museum; a water-colour by A. E. Chalon was exhibited RA, 1849 (934), and VE, 1892 (319); a drawing by himself of 1842, with Maclise, Dickens and Forster in Cornwall, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum; a drawing by D. Maclise was exhibited SKM, 1868 (572); a drawing by D. Roberts is in the Royal Academy, exhibited David Roberts and Clarkson Stanfield Exhibition, Guildhall Art Gallery, London, 1967 (101), reproduced in catalogue; a bust by G. Clarke of Birmingham is listed R. Gunnis, Dictionary of British ), p 103; there is a lithograph by E. U. Eddis (example in British Museum); an anonymous woodcut was published ILN, XXXV (1859), 511, and a woodcut, after a photograph by Watkins, L (1867), 545; a woodcut, after a photograph by Maull and Polyblank, was published Cassell's Illustrated Family Paper, 4 June 1859, p 8, and another was published in an unidentified magazine (cutting in NPG); two photographs are in the NPG.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.