A descriptive catalogue of the pictures in the Fitzwilliam museum, comp largely from materials supplied by Sidney Colvin .. . 566. •5°i Steen.] CATALOGUE OF PICTURES 189 STANFIELD. William Clarkson Stanfield, BritishSchool, 1793—1867. Born at Sunderland in 1793. In early life he was a sailor, but shewed a taste for artand in 1818 became a scene-painter. This he continued for some years, being employedsuccessively at different London theatres, and at the same time acquired a reputation asa painter of marine subjects. In 1824 he was elected a member of the Society of BritishArtists, and in
A descriptive catalogue of the pictures in the Fitzwilliam museum, comp largely from materials supplied by Sidney Colvin .. . 566. •5°i Steen.] CATALOGUE OF PICTURES 189 STANFIELD. William Clarkson Stanfield, BritishSchool, 1793—1867. Born at Sunderland in 1793. In early life he was a sailor, but shewed a taste for artand in 1818 became a scene-painter. This he continued for some years, being employedsuccessively at different London theatres, and at the same time acquired a reputation asa painter of marine subjects. In 1824 he was elected a member of the Society of BritishArtists, and in 1829 exhibited at the Academy. He now gave up scene painting andtravelled on the Continent. In 1832 he was elected and three years later continued painting till his death in 1867, chiefly marine subjects, but sometimes views ofplaces on the Continent, in Italy and elsewhere. IV. 501. Coast scene, near Genoa. On r. rocky coast whichsweeps round to 1. in the distance, shewing snow-capped r. a path leads down to the sea between two crags; on the one to1. stands a monastery with a domed church. On
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