Philip Francis Stephanoff, sometimes Francis Philip Stephanoff (1787/88–1860) was an English painter.

Life

He was born in Brompton Row, London. His father, Fileter N. Stephanoff, was a Russian who settled in England and worked painting ceilings and stage scenery, until he committed suicide around 1790; his mother Gertrude Stephanoff (died 7 January 1808) was a flower-painter with Sir Joseph Banks as patron. James Stephanoff (1788?–1874), also an artist, was his elder brother. Stephanoff became a popular painter of historical and domestic subjects, working both in oils and watercolours. He exhibited at the

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from 1807 to 1845, and with the

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from 1815 to 1820. His wife, Selina Roland, died suddenly. Stephanoff ceased to work as artist many years before his own death, which occurred at West Hanham, near

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, on 15 May 1860.

Works

Falstaff and Mistress Quickly Francis Philip Stephanoff

Stephanoff's works ''The Trial of Algernon Sidney'', ''Cranmer revoking his Recantation'', ''Poor Relations'', and ''The Reconciliation'' were engraved; he also furnished designs for ''The Keepsake'' and other annuals. For Sir George Nayler's sumptuous work on the coronation of George IV he drew in watercolours a series of costume portraits, which went to the

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. At the

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competition in 1843 Stephanoff gained a prize of £100 for a scene from

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* * The painting, by James Stephanoff, engraved by

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for the Forget Me Not annual for 1828, with illustrative verse by Letitia Elizabeth Landon * The painting was engraved by

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with illustrative verse by Letitia Elizabeth Landon entitled ''Legendary Fragments'' for The Keepsake annual, 1831. ;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Stephanoff, Philip Francis 1790 births 1860 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters Painters from London English people of Russian descent 19th-century English male artists