Clarkson Frederick Stanfield
Sunderland, 1793 – Hampstead, 1867
Suite of ten watercolors of the grand tour
Watercolor.
Mounting 415 x 441mm – 16 5/16 x 17 3/8 in.
- View taken from a bridge over the Ill with Strasbourg Cathedral in the background (drawing: 80 x 53 mm – 3 1/8 x 2 1/16 in.), inscription in pencil on the back: “Strasbourg”.
- View of San Pietro a Castello in Venice (drawing: 53 x 80 mm – 2 1/16 x 3 1/8 in.), inscription in pencil on the back: “Venice”.
- View of the Bridge of Sighs in Venice (drawing: 76 x 51 mm – 2 63/64 x 2 1/64 in.), inscription “Bridge of Sighs Venice”.
- View of Blois (drawing: 52 x 75 mm – 2 1/16 x 2 15/16 in.), inscription in pencil on the back: “Blois, France”
- View of the Specola of Padua (drawing: 55 x 40 mm – 2 3/16 x 1 9/16 in.), inscription in pencil on the back: “Padova”.
- View of Valle Maggia (drawing: 53 x 77 mm – 2 1/16 x 3 1/16 in.), inscription in pencil on the back: “Val de Magia”.
- View of the Rialto Bridge in Venice (drawing: 53 x 76 mm – 3 1/8 x 2 63/64 in.), inscription on the back in pencil: “The Rialto Venice”.
- View of the Ehreinbreistein fort on the Rhine (drawing: 77 x 51 mm – 3 1/16 x 2 1/64 n.), inscription on the back: “Ehreinbreistein on the Rhine”.
- Ponte Rotta in Rome (drawing: 53 x 78 mm – 3 1/8 x 3 1/16 in.) inscription on the back: “Ponte Rotta Rome”.
- View of the Portico of Octavia in Rome where the fish market took place (drawing: 78 x 53 mm – 3 1/16 x 3 1/8 in.) inscription on the back in pencil: “Fish Market Rome”.
After having been a sailor and then a theater designer, Clarkson Frederick Stanfield exhibited his first paintings at the Royal Academy in 1820. He was elected an Academician there in 1835. Between 1823 and 1836 he traveled through Europe regularly. he is in Venice in 1830 or on the banks of the Meuse, the Rhine and the Moselle in 1836 where he draws the small views which are gathered here on the same montage.
Condition report – Stuck on the mount by the edges of the sheets outside the drawing. Good condition. A few small stains. Slightly insolated.
