Scenically imposing waters have always fascinated and inspired numerous painters and draughtsmen all over the world. With the expansion of seafaring to America, Asia and Africa from the 16th century onwards, an independent field, usually referred to as marine painting, also developed in Europe, which brought maritime themes to the fore and influenced many artists, especially in the Netherlands and Great Britain.
One of the most famous "sea painters" of his epoch and time was or still is George Clarkson Stanfield, born in London in 1828 as the second son of the even more successful English naval and landscape painter Clarkson Frederick Stanfield , who undoubtedly inherited the great artistic talent of his creator and, although not quite as much as his father, became generally recognized and famous. Unlike the older Stanfield, who had served in the British Merchant Navy as a youth and had only left early because of an unfortunate accident, the younger Stanfield knew the oceans not as a seaman, but only from a few and rather short cruises and as a good observer from the coast and the mainland. Clarkson Frederick Stanfield also favoured rivers rather than seas as motifs for his paintings. In addition to the lakes of Northern Italy, he painted the Rhine and Lahn as well as the Meuse and Moselle. One of his best pictures is considered to be the view of the wine-growing community of Beilstein on the right bank of the Moselle in the centre of today's district of Cochem-Zell in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate, which he painted in 1855.
Stanfield's magnificent painting "Limburg seen from the west" from 1862, which is one of the exhibits of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn and which was used in 2010 on the occasion of the city's anniversary "1,100 years Limburg an der Lahn" as motif for a special stamp of the Deutsche Post AG with a considerable edition of approx. 5.4 million pieces, is also well known. He also immortalized the cities of Huy in the Belgian province of Liege as well as Alkmaar in the Netherlands, the "Broletto" (town hall) of Como in Lombardy in northern Italy, the banks of the Rhine near Cologne as well as the Swiss Alps and the banks of the Moselle near Liege. Stanfield's pictures of Rotterdam (1860), the old bridge in Lyon (1829), ships on the Scheldt (1862), Lago Garda and Lago Maggiore as well as the German town of Andernach, the steep coast near Dover and the Scottish community of Minnegaff are also considered to be artistically extremely successful.
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.jpg "Loggio, on the Lake of Lugano by George Clarkson Stanfield")
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.jpg "View on the Mediterranean, 1834-35 by George Clarkson Stanfield")
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