About the artist:

George Clarkson Stanfield (1 May 1828–22 March 1878) was an English painter. Stanfield was born in London, the second son from the second marriage of his painter father Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793–1867). He was the pupil of his father, and painted the same class of subjects including landscape art and marine art; he is best known for his views of the Rhine Valley, Switzerland, and the Italian lakes. Stanfield exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1844 to 1876 and at the British Institution from 1844 to 1867. Stanfield married his cousin, Maria Blackburn, in 1854. He died at the home of his sister in Hampstead on 22 March 1878.