Stanwood, Franklin (1852-1888)

Name:

Stanwood, Franklin (1852-1888)

Title:

Ornamental Painter, Portland, 1877
Marine Artist, Portand, 1879

Born:

03/16/1852

Birthplace:

Portland, ME

Died:

06/20/1888

Death Location:

Gorham, ME

Residence:

Portland, ME 1852, 1860, 1870, 1877, 1879
Gorham, ME 1863-
Paris, France

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Artist
Poet
Mariner, 1870

Father:

Stanwood, Gideon L. (1811-1885)

Mother:

Higgins, Elizabeth H. (18 -1889)

Relations:

Member, Portland Society of Art, 1882

Notes:

William David Barry, Franklin Stanwood: Portland Marine Painter," Antiques, 120 (October 1981), 926-930.

William David Barry, "Mount Lafayette," in Consuming Views: Art & Tourism in the White Mountains, 1850-1900. (Concord, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Historical Society, 2006), 74-75, 110.

Ethel Stanwood Bolton, A History of the Stanwood Family in America. (Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell and Churchill, 1899), 198.

The Annual Catalogue of Gorham Seminary, Gorham, ME. For the Year Ending July 14, 1865. (Portland, ME: David Tucker, 1865), 9.

The Annual Catalogue of Gorham Seminary, Gorham, ME. For the Year Ending July 11, 1866. (Portland, ME: Stepehn Berry, 1866), 7.

"The New Marine Artist," Portland Daily Press, Portland, ME, November 14, 1877, 4.

"Valuable Oil Paintings at Auction" Advertisement, Portland Daily Press, Portland, ME, November 22, 1879, 2.

"An Elegant Painting," Portland Daily Press, Portland, ME, July 18, 1883, 4.

"Franklin Stanwood," Portland Daily Press, Portland, ME, June 22, 1888, 2.

Birth Records, City of Portland, State of Maine

Death Records, City of Gorham, State of Maine

Western Cemetery, Portland, ME