Simon Carl Stanley

Simon Carl Stanley

Simon Carl Stanley , also Charles Stanley (born December 12, 1703 in Copenhagen ; † February 17, 1761 ibid) was a Danish plasterer and sculptor of British descent.

Life

Stanley was a student of JC Sturmberg in Copenhagen. For his further education he moved to Germany and the Netherlands , where he was a student of Ignatius van Logteren in Amsterdam . In 1727 he went to London and worked as an assistant in Peter Scheemakers' studio . His first own assignment was stucco work in the country estate Compton Place in Eastbourne for Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington . Other works were grave monuments, including the one erected in Little Easton in 1746 for William Maynard, 2nd Baron Maynard (1623–1699) and stucco work in Kirtlington Park, Oxfordshire .

Stanley returned to Copenhagen in 1747 at the latest. From 1752 he taught at the previous institution of the Copenhagen Academy and in 1754 became professor of sculpture when it was founded. He worked for the faience factory in Kastrup near Copenhagen, for which he designed various groups of figures, and for L. Fournier's porcelain factory in Copenhagen. He was a member of a Masonic Lodge in Copenhagen. He was buried in a crypt under the Christian church he designed.

His son Carl Frederik Stanley became a leading sculptor of early classicism in Denmark .

Honors

• 1755 court sculptor

Works

Sculptures

• Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst :
  • Marble group Vertumnus, Pomona and Amor (around 1749, after Laurent Delvaux )
  • Ganymede with the eagle (1752, recording piece for the academy; old cast based on the missing original)
• Christian VII's Palace (Amalienborg)
  • Ornamental decoration of the dining room (1757)
• Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts:
  • Carvings on the gilded chair of the chairman (1755)
• Christian Church (Copenhagen) :
  • Interior decoration and inventory, together with Jacob Fortling (1756/59)
• Holmens Kirke :
  • Marble Baptism (1756)
• Own house in Christianshavn (now parish hall):
  • Ceiling stucco (around 1755; not preserved)
• Bregentved Castle near Haslev :
  • Fountain for Adam Gottlob von Moltke (1760; lost).
• Fredensborg Castle
  • Participation in the decoration of the representative rooms on the ground floor (1722)
  • Palace park: Marble group Venus, Amor and Adonis (around 1750), Diana (1756/57), Ceres (1760)
• Fredriksvern, today Stavern (Norway) , city church:
  • Figures at the altar (1755)
• Katharinenkirche (Lübeck) :
  • Marble sarcophagus with accompanying statues for Claus von Reventlow († 1758)
• Marienlyst Castle :
  • Marble fireplaces and mirror frames
• Nebsager (Amt Vejle ), Church:
  • Epitaph Tycho de Hofman (1754)
• Roskilde Cathedral :
  • 2 angels at the epitaph O. Krabbe (early).
• Sorterup Sogn , church:
  • Epitaph U. Bruun

Translations

• ( Edward Moore ): Fabler for det smukke Kjön. 1760, with 16 etchings by Alexia von Lode after drawings by Stanley (?)

Compositions

• Passion Oratorios (1755, 1759, 1760)

literature

• Philip Weilbach : Simon Carl Stanley . In: John Rosén, Theodor Westrin, Bernhard Meijer (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 1st edition. tape 15 : Socker – Tengström . Gernandts boktryckeri, Stockholm 1891, Sp. 362 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
• Ch. A. Been: Stanley, Simon Carl . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 16 : Skarpenberg – Sveistrup . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1902, p. 287-288 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
• P. Johansen: Stanley, Simon Carl . In: Johannes Brøndum-Nielsen, Palle Raunkjær (ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 22 : Speculation – Søøre . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1927, p. 146 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
• Stanley, Simon Carl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 467-468 .

Web links

Commons : Simon Carl Stanley  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Entry in the Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ch. A. Been: Stanley, Carl Frederik . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 16 : Skarpenberg – Sveistrup . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1902, p. 284-286 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
2. ^ Stanley, Simon Carl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 467-468 .