- George Clarkson Stanfield
Sheet: 7 7/8 × 5 13/16 in. (20 × 14.8 cm)
Mount: 12 × 9 1/16 in. (30.5 × 23 cm)
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The London firm Maull & Polyblank
was a commercial portrait studio active from about 1850 to 1860 and specialized
in portraits of scholars, literati, and painters. A second-generation artist,
George Clarkson Stanfield (1828-1878) pursued a variety of painting genres:
landscape, seascape, and cityscape. He was a member of the Royal Academy of Art
and a student of his father, the landscapist William Clarkson Stanfield. With board
and paper propped on his knee and brush in hand, Stanfield appears to be
contemplating a potential subject for his watercolor while remaining completely
conscious of the photographer's camera. Artificial light sources had not yet been
introduced into photographic practice at mid-century, so the highlights
surrounding the painter are effected by subtly applying translucent paint
around the outside margins.
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above image in pencil on mount " Gld "
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