La Rochelle

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Clarkson Stanfield was born in Sunderland and spent nine years of his early life as a seaman. He went to sea at the age of 15 and joined the Royal Navy at 18. After being invalided out of the Navy, he joined the Merchant Service and travelled as far as China. On his return he took a job as a scene painter in the East London theatre and for the next 18 years earned his living painting, often for the Drury Lane Theatre. His largest work, commissioned by the United Services Club, Pall Mall, is some 15 feet in length and shows the Battle of Trafalgar (c.1836). Stanfield exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1820, 1821 and from 1827 until his death, and was elected a Royal Academician in 1835.

Places

Bay of Biscay, France, Charente-Maritime, La Rochelle

Subjects

hulk, seascape/coastal scene, shore, fence, tower, ship

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), pencil, wash drawing, pencil drawing, wash

Artist

Clarkson Stanfield (1793 - 1867)

Title

La Rochelle

Date

5 October 1857

Medium

Pencil and wash on paper

Dimensions

height: 33.00 cm, width: 46.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Colnaghi's, March 1967

Inscription

lr: CS - Rochelle Oct.r 5th 1851.

GAC number

7558