The Royal Yacht Passing St Michael's Mount

The Royal Yacht Passing St Michael's Mount
The Royal Yacht Passing St Michael's Mount
Artist	Clarkson Stanfield
Year	1846
Medium	Oil on panel, Landscape painting
Dimensions	30.1 cm × 45.8 cm (11.9 in × 18.0 in)
Location	Royal Collection

Year1846

Dimensions30.1 cm × 45.8 cm (11.9 in × 18.0 in)

The Royal Yacht Passing St Michael's Mount is an 1846 landscape painting by the British artist Clarkson Stanfield.^[1] It features a view of Saint Michael's Mount on the coast of Cornwall, and records the steam-powered Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert which anchored in Mount's Bay on 6 September 1846 with Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and other members of the royal family aboard.^[2]

Stanfield was a former sailor who was known for his Romantic seascapes and produced a larger, more turbulent depiction of the view for his 1830 breakthrough work Mount St Michael, Cornwall. The work was commissioned by Victoria who gave it as a Christmas Present to Albert. It was recorded as hanging in the Prince's Consort's apartments at Windsor Castle in 1878 and remains in the Royal Collection.^[3] In 1855 a engraving based on the painting was produced by Robert Wallis for the The Art Journal.^[4]

v t e Clarkson Frederick Stanfield
Paintings	Lake Como (1825) A Market Boat on the Scheldt (1826) Mount St Michael, Cornwall (1830) Portsmouth Harbour (1831) The Opening of New London Bridge (1832) Orford (1833) Venice from the Dogana (1833) The Battle of Trafalgar (1836) The Canal of the Guidecca, and the Church of the Gesuati, Venice (1836) Beilstein on the Moselle (1837) On the Scheldt near Leiskenshoeck (1837) Sands near Boulogne (1838) A View of Vietri in the Gulf of Salerno (1840) The Castle of Ischia from the Mole, Italy (1841) The Morning after the Wreck (1844) Oude Scheld – Texel Island (1844) The Capture of the El Gamo (1845) The Battle of Roveredo (1846) On the Dogger Bank (1846) The Royal Yacht Passing St Michael's Mount (1846) French Troops Fording the Magra (1847) In the Gulf of Venice (1848) Tilbury Fort - Wind Against Tide (1849) Macbeth and the Witches (1850) Oxwich Bay (1851) Trajan's Arch, Ancona (1851) The Harbour of La Rochelle (1852) The Last of the Crew (1853) The Victory Towed into Gibraltar (1853) View of the Pic du Midi d'Ossau in the Pyrenees (1854) Stack Rock, County Antrim (1861) Shakespeare Cliff, Dover (1862)
Other	Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Portrait of Clarkson Stanfield
Family	George Clarkson Stanfield (son) Francis Stanfield (son) Joseph Ridgard Bagshawe (grandson) James Field Stanfield (father)

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