George Clarkson Stanfield

George Clarkson Stanfield ( born May 1, 1828 in London, † March 22 1878 in Hampstead ) was an English painter.

Stanfield was the second son of the painter Clarkson Frederick Stanfield from his second marriage to Rebecca Adcock. Stanfield was taught at the Royal Academy of Arts, and from his father. Like him, he devoted himself to landscape and marine painting. His work focuses on lakes and rivers were in Italy, Switzerland, France and Germany; especially from the Rhine, the Moselle, Lahn and Meuse. In addition, he created coastal views from France and Britain. Between 1844 and 1876 he exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, and the British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom from.

1854 Stanfield married Mary Blackburn, the daughter of a half-sister of his father. The marriage produced five sons reached adulthood. After the death of his father in 1867 Stanfield ran into economic difficulties and health was increasingly struck. He died in 1878 in his sister in London's Hampstead house.

His work Limburg seen from the west in 1862, located in the Rheinische Landesmuseum Bonn, 2010 was used for a stamp of Deutsche Post.