Sands near Boulogne
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| Artist | Clarkson Stanfield |
| Year | 1838 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas, landscape painting |
| Dimensions | 71.1 cm × 110.5 cm (28.0 in × 43.5 in) |
| Location | Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
Sands near Boulogne is an 1838 landscape painting by the British artist Clarkson Stanfield. It features a view of the sandy beaches near Boulogne in Northern France.[1][2] Such scenes of a stretch of French coastline featured in the works of Richard Parkes Bonington, who had been active the previous decade.
Stanfield was a former sailor noted for his often atmospheric Romantic seascapes. The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1838 at the National Gallery in London.[3] It was acquired by the art collector John Sheepshanks who donated it as part of the Sheepshanks Gift of 1857 to the new Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington.[4][5] In 1870 it as one of twenty paintings from the Sheepshanks Gift highlighted by Richard Redgrave.[6]
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