baptismal listing for Clarkson Stanfield, son of James George "Stansfield" shows occupation of James George to be "Hawker".
6. Clarkson* Frederick Stanfield
Note 1:
Artist - married Mary Hutchinson & Rebecca Adcock. 9 sons, 3 daughters. Native of Sunderland.
Famous painter - best known for marine subjects. From 1808 to 1818 he was a sailor, first as a merchant sailor and then in 1812 was press-ganged into the Royal Navy. Disabled in a fall from the rigging, he took up painting, first as a scene painter (theatre) then with easel (from about the 1830s).
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Note 2:Clarkson Stanfield was born in Sunderland on 3rd. December 1793, being the fifth and youngest child of James Field Stanfield (1747-1824).
James Field Stanfield was an Irishman and ex seaman, actor and author.
Young Stanfield was apprenticed as a boy to a Heraldic Painter in Edinburgh, but went to sea in a Merchant Ship at the age of fifteen. In 1812, he was pressed into the Navy which he left in 1814, after an accident. He was a merchant sailor until 1816 when he turned to scene painter. He became a scene painter of great repute, working in theatres in London and Edinburgh, at the same time he began to paint small marines in oil and met his great friend David Roberts, R.A. (1796-1864), who returned to London with him.
He firstly exhibited in 1820, and was recognised as a marine painter of great promise. He was one of the founders of the Society of British Artists in 1823, becoming it's President in 1829, the same year he sent his first picture to the Royal Academy. He was elected Associate of the Royal Academy and a Royal Academician in 1832 and 1835, and had, by this time, completely given up scene painting and was devoting himself entirely to easel pictures.
Painting in both oil and watercolour he specialised in shipping, coastal and river scenes, making regular visits to Italy, France and Holland and painting many Venetian views in the 1830's and Dutch scenes in the 1840's and from that time he lived in Hertfordshire, settling in Hampstead in 1847. He was commissioned to paint the opening of the New London Bridge and Portsmouth Harbour by King William IV, but probably his finest work was the "Battle of Trafalgar" in 1863, painted for the United Services Club in Pall Mall, London, where it still hangs to this very day.
Clarkson Stanfield is regarded as one of England's finest marine painters, and to Ruskin he was "the leader of the English realists". He was held in great esteem, and no artist could have shown more knowledge of ships and sea conditions, -and he was considered Turner's nearest rival as a delineator of cloud forms.
He died in Hampstead on 18th. May 1867, and his works are represented in many English Collections and Galleries, including the British Museum and the Victorian and Albert Museum in London. His Studio sale was held at Christie's on the 8th May 1868.
He exhibited between 1820~1867; 135 R.A., 22 B.I.. 21 S.S.
Pieter Van Der Merwe notes that the name William Clarkson Stanfield is a common error. Some have him as Frederick Clarkson Field Stanfield but the most compelling evidence is for Clarkson Frederick Stanfield. His signet ring had the initials CFS. A draft memo of agreement in 1817 states "An agreement between the Trustees - Richard Carruthers, John Alpe and Joseph Vickers and 'Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, Scene Painter' " (Spectacular Career of Clarkson Stanfield, p.47).
From about 1857 he had trouble with his left leg and rheumatism and neuralgia kept him housebound for weeks on end. On May 11, 1867 he was taken ill with a stomach haemorrhage and died "quite peacefully" at 5:30 pm on Saturday, May 18, 1867
Although his father was born Catholic, there are indications that when James Field gave up the priesthood and took to sea, he also abandoned Catholicism. Presumably Clarkson was raised as a Protestant. However, his eldest son Henry died at age 11 in 1838, and after Clarkson spent much time in Italy that year, he seems to have moved back towards Catholicism. By 1842 he was friends with a young catholic architect, Augustus Pugin. Pugin and another friend Etty (a high Anglican) appear to have had a great religious effect on him. Clarkson appears to have been a practising Catholic by 1842 and was baptized or re-baptized on October 3, 1846 with the names Thomas Clarkson (a week after his original namesake, Reverend Thomas Clarkson, died at the age of 87) - from the Spectacular Career of Clarkson Stanfield. As an addendum to this note, his children were all baptised as Protestants, up to and including his second last child, Field Stanfield, baptised on April 16, 1844 at Saint Pancras, Old Church, London. I do not have any baptismal information about his last child, Edward, born about 1845.
The Late Mr. Stanfield - an essay by Charles Dickens, May, 1867
Every Artist, be he writer, painter, musician, or actor, must bear
his private sorrows as he best can, and must separate them from the
exercise of his public pursuit. But it sometimes happens, in
compensation, that his private loss of a dear friend represents a
loss on the part of the whole community. Then he may, without
obtrusion of his individuality, step forth to lay his little wreath
upon that dear friend's grave.On Saturday, the eighteenth of this present month, Clarkson
Stanfield died. On the afternoon of that day, England lost the
great marine painter of whom she will be boastful ages hence; the
National Historian of her speciality, the Sea; the man famous in all
countries for his marvellous rendering of the waves that break upon
her shores, of her ships and seamen, of her coasts and skies, of her
storms and sunshine, of the many marvels of the deep. He who holds
the oceans in the hollow of His hand had given, associated with
them, wonderful gifts into his keeping; he had used them well
through threescore and fourteen years; and, on the afternoon of that
spring day, relinquished them for ever.It is superfluous to record that the painter of "The Battle of
Trafalgar", of the "Victory being towed into Gibraltar with the body
of Nelson on Board", of "The Morning after the Wreck", of "The
Abandoned", of fifty more such works, died in his seventy-fourth
year, "Mr." Stanfield.--He was an Englishman.Those grand pictures will proclaim his powers while paint and canvas
last. But the writer of these words had been his friend for thirty
years; and when, a short week or two before his death, he laid that
once so skilful hand upon the writer's breast and told him they
would meet again, "but not here", the thoughts of the latter turned,
for the time, so little to his noble genius, and so much to his
noble nature!He was the soul of frankness, generosity, and simplicity. The most
genial, the most affectionate, the most loving, and the most lovable
of men. Success had never for an instant spoiled him. His interest
in the Theatre as an Institution--the best picturesqueness of which
may be said to be wholly due to him--was faithful to the last. His
belief in a Play, his delight in one, the ease with which it moved
him to tears or to laughter, were most remarkable evidences of the
heart he must have put into his old theatrical work, and of the
thorough purpose and sincerity with which it must have been done.
The writer was very intimately associated with him in some amateur
plays; and day after day, and night after night, there were the same
unquenchable freshness, enthusiasm, and impressibility in him,
though broken in health, even then.No Artist can ever have stood by his art with a quieter dignity than
he always did. Nothing would have induced him to lay it at the feet
of any human creature. To fawn, or to toady, or to do undeserved
homage to any one, was an absolute impossibility with him. And yet
his character was so nicely balanced that he was the last man in the
world to be suspected of self-assertion, and his modesty was one of
his most special qualities.He was a charitable, religious, gentle, truly good man. A genuine
man, incapable of pretence or of concealment. He had been a sailor
once; and all the best characteristics that are popularly attributed
to sailors, being his, and being in him refined by the influences of
his Art, formed a whole not likely to be often seen. There is no
smile that the writer can recall, like his; no manner so naturally
confiding and so cheerfully engaging. When the writer saw him for
the last time on earth, the smile and the manner shone out once
through the weakness, still: the bright unchanging Soul within the
altered face and form.No man was ever held in higher respect by his friends, and yet his
intimate friends invariably addressed him and spoke of him by a pet
name. It may need, perhaps, the writer's memory and associations to
find in this a touching expression of his winning character, his
playful smile, and pleasant ways. "You know Mrs. Inchbald's story,
Nature and Art?" wrote Thomas Hood, once, in a letter: "What a fine
Edition of Nature and Art is Stanfield!"Gone! And many and many a dear old day gone with him! But their
memories remain. And his memory will not soon fade out, for he has
set his mark upon the restless waters, and his fame will long be
sounded in the roar of the sea.
13. Clarkson William Stanfield
It is noted that Clarkson William had some sort of "mental disturbance". In addition, he didn't get along with his stepmother. He died of consumption (tuberculosis) in 1853. (The Spectacular Career of Clarkson Stanfield).
Noted as having a powerful and somewhat forbidding personality. Clarkson was devoted to her and was obviously very close. When he travelled, he expected and received a letter from her almost every day. Dickens once stated that she was "cold and fishy as usual".
She was a competent mother, raising 10 children of whom only one (Henry) died in childhood (a great feat in those days). She was extremely musical, playing both harp and piano. She taught her children and grandchildren to sing in operas.
She converted to Catholicism at the same time as her husband in the 1840s.
- from The Spectacular Career of Clarkson Stanfield.
15. Henry James Field (Harry) Stanfield
Baptism listed as record 791 for Saint John the Evangelist in London. Birth Date is not listed. Parents Clarkson & Rebecca Stanfield, abode: Princes Street. [photocopy of baptismal record]
Emigrated to Buenos Aires and became partner in the firm "Semple and Stanfield" had numerous issue [Pieter van der Merwe]
Baptismal record #388 of Westminister, Satin Martin in the Fields, 1830, does not show his birth date. It shows parents as Clarkson & Rebecca Stanfield living at Buckingham Street (14 Buckingham Street - Pieter van der Merwe)
Marriage record shows witnesses to be: Edward Lumb, John C. Stanfield, F. H. Getting, Harriot King?, Ellizabe H. Dyrates?
Died of Yellow Fever during the outbreak in Buenos Ayres in 1871
Yellow Fever death records show a "Mary Ann Stanfield", native of Buenos Ayres to have died on March 20, 1871. Assume this is Mary Ann Yeates who was a native of Buenos Ayres.
from: http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/yfever/1871.htm
The "black sheep"; disappeared to Canada or Australia and still abroad in 1870. Said to have returned to England with an acting troupe, "The Stanfield Merrymakers". - Pieter van der Merwe
Baptismal record #1964 of Saint Pancras, Old Church, London, 1833, shows birth as October 9, 1833 and parents Clarkson & Rebecca Stanfield living at Mornington Crescent (36 Mornington Crescent - Pieter van der Merwe)
Became a RC priest (The Spectacular Career of Clarkson Stanfield)
Baptismal record 2064 of Saint Pancras, Old Church, London, 1837, shows birth date as November 5, 1835 with parents Clarkson & Rebecca Stanfield living at Mornington Crescent (36 Mornington Crescent - Pieter van der Merwe). Francis was baptised on the same day as his younger sister Harriet.
Baptismal record 2065 of Saint Pancras, Old Church, London, 1837, shows birth date as April 8, 1837 with parents Clarkson & Rebecca Stanfield living at Mornington Crescent (36 Mornington Crescent - Pieter van der Merwe). Harriet was baptised on the same day as her older brother Francis.
Baptismal record 1276 of Saint Pancras, Old Church, London, 1840, shows birth date as possibly January 10, 1840 (this could easily be in error - very hard to read) with parents Clarkson & Rebecca Stanfield living at Mornington Place (48 Mornington Place - Pieter van der Merwe).
Became a RC priest (the Spectacular Career of Clarkson Stanfield)
Baptismal record 1972 of Saint Pancras, Old Church, London, 1842, shows birth date as September 1, 1841 with parents Clarkson & Rebecca Stanfield living at Mornington Place (48 Mornington Place - Pieter van der Merwe).
Solicitor and H.M. Coroner for Leeds
Email to Jeff Wright, March 17, 2003:
Dear Dr Wright,
Thank you for your email of 16th March concerning your Great Great
Grandfather John Blackburn.I have checked through our copies of the Law List and have found the
following entry information.John Blackburn was admitted as a solicitor in the Easter Term of 1829. The
information I have indicates that he practised until 1865 as he does not
appear in the Law List for 1866 but appears up to that year. He is listed
as having been a member of the Metropolitan and Provincial Law Association.
During his time as solicitor he held the following positions:1838-65 - Coroner for Leeds
1844-1860 - Solicitor to Reeth Mining Company
1844-60 - Agent to Scottish Amicable Assurance Office
1851-65 - Perpetual CommissionerHis last entry in 1865 links him to D'Arcy Stanfield Blackburn who
qualified in the Trinity Term 1858. I have not come across this type of linked entry
before and D'Arcy Stanfield Blackburn is not listed in this volume anywhere
else - perhaps he was John Blackburn's partner? I must stress I do not
know for certain.I hope this information is of assistance to you.
Yours sincerely
Catherine Pease
Library Resource Manager
The Law Society Library
113 Chancery Lane
London
WC2A 1PL