CLARKSON FREDERICK STANFIELD

 

CLARKSON FREDERICK STANFIELD

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture by Gautam Shah

Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793-1867) was an English painter. He was known for his sea coast art and large scale landscapes. His father, and other family members were also painters.

Stanfield in his young age, was a sailor. These voyages exposed him to intimate experience with the sea. He was fond of sail boats on choppy seas, extreme weather and dynamic scenes. But he began the carrier with coach decoration, theatrical scene painting. He created moving dioramas and panorama ( The Venetian panorama was a roll of 300 feet length and 20 high, and was gas lit). The theatre or stage-art helped him to handle vast scapes, whereas, moving rolled scenes helped him to connect various pieces of scenes.

Stanfield's easel and theatrical work was based on experiences gained over extensive domestic and foreign tours, and meticulous sketches made on the site. His travels at home and in France, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Ireland allowed him to create wide range of scenes.

Stanfield was elected as Associate Member of the Royal Academy in 1832, and became a full Academician in February 1835. 

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ROBERT BEVAN

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Robert Polhill Bevan (1865-1925) was a British painter, draughtsman and lithographer. He was a founding member of the Camden Town Group of London, and the Cumberland Market Group (English Post-Impressionist artists). His work shows impressions of Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin. He also received encouragement from Renoir, particularly in his drawing of horses. His painting, Courtyard is described as the first exercises in the expressive use of pure colour in this century.

Robert Bevan used simpler colour schemes of large extensive fills. He avoids using the shadows to present the forms including the architecture. He was initially influenced by many of his contemporary artists, but eventually mastered own style. After a break of nearly twenty years, he began working on lithography, but now the works are more as tonal translations of colour paintings. 

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LOUISA INGRAM RAYNER

 

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Louisa Ingram Rayner (1832-1924) was a British Architectural landscape artist. Rayner studied painting from the age of fifteen, first with her father. She has rendered streets and picturesquely decaying buildings in many cities and towns of Britain and Northern France. Her scenes include old towns, cities, gateways, streets, markets, old relics and buildings. She has also drawn several interiors, and exteriors of churches.

Rayner was meticulous in drawing architectural elements, building details and surfaces. She was active through her long life of more than 90 years. She lived through, many changing phases the city-life, and recorded it all. She mainly worked with deep-toned water colours. 

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