Philip Francis Stephanoff
Philip Francis Stephanoff,[1] sometimes Francis Philip Stephanoff[2] (1787/88–1860) was an English painter.
Life
He was born in Brompton Row, London. His father, Fileter N. Stephanoff, was a Russian who settled in England and worked painting ceilings and stage scenery, until he committed suicide around 1790; his mother Gertrude Stephanoff (died 7 January 1808) was a flower-painter with Sir Joseph Banks as patron. James Stephanoff (1788?–1874), also an artist, was his elder brother.[2]
Stephanoff became a popular painter of historical and domestic subjects, working both in oils and watercolours. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and British Institution from 1807 to 1845, and with the Old Watercolour Society from 1815 to 1820.[2]
His wife, Selina Roland, died suddenly. Stephanoff ceased to work as artist many years before his own death, which occurred at West Hanham, near Bristol, on 15 May 1860.[2]
Works
Stephanoff's works The Trial of Algernon Sidney, Cranmer revoking his Recantation, Poor Relations, and The Reconciliation were engraved; he also furnished designs for The Keepsake and other annuals. For Sir George Nayler's sumptuous work on the coronation of George IV he drew in watercolours a series of costume portraits, which went to the South Kensington Museum. At the Westminster Hall competition in 1843 Stephanoff gained a prize of £100 for a scene from John Milton's Comus.[2]
Notes
- ^ Peach, Annette. "Stephanoff, James". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ a b c d e Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 54. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
External links
- 2 artworks by or after Francis Philip Stephanoff at the Art UK site
- The painting, by James Stephanoff, The Bridal Morning. engraved by Edward Francis Finden for the Forget Me Not annual for 1828, with illustrative verse by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
- The painting The Knight and the Lady. was engraved by Charles Heath with illustrative verse by Letitia Elizabeth Landon entitled Legendary Fragments for The Keepsake annual, 1831.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). "Stephanoff, Francis Philip". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 54. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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