George Clarkson Stanfield (British 1828-1878)
Lake Como
oil on canvas, signed middle right "George C. Stanfield", titled in pencil on stretcher "Lake Como"
Size: 19 ¾ x 30 in (with frame 30 x 40 in)
J18645
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George Clarkson Stanfield was born in London to Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793–1867) and his second wife Rebecca Adcock. He had eleven siblings from his father’s first and second marriages.
George studied under his father, whom John Ruskin believed to be “the leader of the realist painters”. He produced stylistically similar marine and landscapes scenes to that of his father’s and was best known for his views of the Rhine Valley, the Moselle, Switzerland, and the Italian lakes.
George exhibited starting at the age of sixteen at the Royal Academy and the British Institution until 1876. He married his cousin, Maria Blackburn, in 1854, and died 1878.