Franklin Stanwood
Franklin Stanwood (March 16, 1852 – June 20, 1888) was an American artist from Maine.[1]
Stanwood was born at the Portland Alms House in 1852 and immediately adopt by Capt. of Gorham. He was educated in the Portland Public Schools. He eventually became a sailor and later a painter. He was known for painting nautical themes as well as house portraits.
Stanwood died of tuberculosis at the age of 36 and is interred at Western Cemetery in Portland.[2]
Other reading[]
- Chance, James. "Charles Dickens and Franklin Stanwood." The Dickensian, vol. 110, no. 494, 2014, pp. 201.
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- 1852 births
- 1888 deaths
- Artists from Portland, Maine
- People from Gorham, Maine
- Painters from Maine
- 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis
- Burials at Western Cemetery (Portland, Maine)
- Tuberculosis deaths in Maine
- American painter, 19th-century birth stubs