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A View of Vietri in the Gulf of Salerno

Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793–1867)

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

A View of Vietri in the Gulf of Salerno

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Stanfield sketched in the Gulf of Salerno during his stay of twelve days at Amalfi in November 1838. He painted this view in 1840 (Royal Collection) and this is evidently a later version based on the same sketches: the landscape is substantially the same, though the staffage is entirely different.

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Title

A View of Vietri in the Gulf of Salerno

Date

1855

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 41 x W 61.2 cm

Accession number

WA1999.54

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Dr Courtenay Arthur Ralegh Radford, 1999

Work type

Painting

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Clarkson Frederick Stanfield

1793–1867

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