Franklin Stanwood (March 16, 1852 – June 20, 1888) was an American artist from Maine.

Stanwood was born at the Portland Alms House in 1852 and immediately adopt by Capt. Gideon Stanwood 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.

Franklin Stanwood

Stanwood died of tuberculosis at the age of 36 and is interred at Western Cemetery in Portland.

Franklin Stanwood

Other reading

Chance, James. "Charles Dickens and Franklin Stanwood." The Dickensian, vol. 110, no. 494, 2014, pp. 201.

Franklin Stanwood

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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