STANLEY, Archer

1826 - 1878

Archer Stanley was born at St George's, Hanover Square, London in 1826, son of Caleb Robert Stanley and his wife Ann née Miles, who married at Marylebone, London on 10 January 1817. In 1841, Archer was a student at a school at Temple Square, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, and in 1851, a 25-year-old landscape painter, living at Maddox Street, St George's, Hanover Square, London with his parents, 55-year-old Caleb, an artist landscape painter, and 60-year-old Ann, with five siblings, Anne 31, Jemima 30, Charles 28, an historical painter, Georgina 22 and Caleb 18, a scholar. Archer exhibited, as did his father and brother Charles Horace Stanley, at the Suffolk Fine Arts Association at Ipswich in 1850, two watercolours 'Hill and Dale - Scene in the Island of Arran' and 'Study of a Normandy Peasant'. In 1861, an unmarried landscape painter, lodging at 39 Somerset Street, Marylebone, the home of Henry Horsley and his family. He married at Logie, Perth, Scotland on 25 August 1863, Frances Griffith Sharpe. Archer Stanley was of 7 Crescent Place, Mornington, Crescent, London 'artist', when he died at Middlesex Hospital, Charles Street, London on 14 December 1878, aged 52.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from 25 Great Maddox Street, Hanover Square
1847 873 Study of Beech Trees in Knowle Park
1848 894 Walburton Church - drawing/miniature
1850 948 Near Brodrick, Isle of Arran - drawing/miniature
         1009 Pass in Glenn Rosa, Isle of Arran - drawing/miniature
1852 842 Sabbath, a Scene in the Highlands
1855 1055 Summer Time: Highlands
from Albert Street, Gloucester Square, Regent's Park
1857 730 Loch Leven...Argyllshire
         865 The Muir on Fire, Highlands
1858 722 The Highland Fishermen's Home
         873 Loch Nieraig, Perthshire
1859 990 The Ruins of Iona
         1163 Ben Nevis
from 39 Somerset Street, Portman Square
1861 787 Ben Nevis, with Interlochy Castle
1862 981 Glencoe, looking towards the Great Rest
from 17 Nassau Street, Middlesex Hospital
1871 315 Coming Storm, Westland Highlands

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Works by This Artist