Commissions from Covent Garden included the sets for the London premiere of Mozart ’ s Die Entführung aus dem Serail ( The Abduction from the Seraglio ) in 1827, scenery for a pantomime depicting the naval victory of Navarino, and two panoramas that he executed jointly with Stanfield.

Stanfield ’ s practiced command of the artist of composition, his unerring sense of the agreeable and picturesque in subject and effect, his pleasant and cheerful color and last, not least, the large use to which he turned his knowledge and love of the sea and shipping … ( all ) added to the widespread admiration he had won by his consummately skillful scene painting, ( and ) combined to make him one of the most popular, if not the most popular, of landscape painters.

In 1820, he became friends with the artist William Clarkson Stanfield, then painting at the Pantheon in Edinburgh.

Originally named Foster, Stanfield is named after Sen. Robert N. Stanfield who purchased the area in 1903 from C. B.

In 1870, three years after his death, Stanfield was awarded a major retrospective of his work at the inaugural Royal Academy Winter Exhibition.

Bronze plaque of Robert L Stanfield at the Halifax International Airport, whom the airport is now named after

Implementing bilingualism had hurt the popularity of the Liberals significantly, as English-Canadians were not receptive and viewed it as a waste of money, but Stanfield did not ( or would not ) capitalize upon that by opposing it, even with the 1974 election approaching after the Liberals had lost a motion of non-confidence.

" Prime Minister Brian Mulroney wanted to appoint Stanfield as U. N. ambassador saying, " I tried to engage him further but he was leading a vigorous life and a very active life and he didn't want to change after a while.

The Halifax Robert L. Stanfield International Airport is named after him.

The modern party was built by Robert Stanfield after World War II.

Senator Jacques Flynn was unopposed in 1967 after being encouraged to seek the position by the then national leader Robert Stanfield.

The Atlantic Bowl champions would receive the Robert L. Stanfield trophy, a trophy named after the former leader of Her Majesty's Official Opposition.

While credited with uniting the PCs after the difficult Stanfield years and leading the Progressive Conservatives to victory in the 1979 federal election, a lack of what Jeffrey Simpson referred to as the " Discipline of Power " in Cabinet tarnished the government, and Clark's misjudgment of a Parliamentary motion resulted in the government falling.

The 1976 leadership election of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was held in Ottawa on February 22, 1976, to elect a leader to replace Robert Stanfield, who had resigned after losing the 1968, 1972, and 1974 elections.

McCutcheon ran for the leadership of the PC Party at the 1967 leadership convention, placing sixth out of eleven candidate on the first ballot, and withdrawing from the race after the second ballot to endorse the eventual winner, Robert Stanfield.

He made engravings after Chalon, Leitch, Stanfield, Landseer, Eastlake, Creswick and Ansdell, and especially after Turner.

The moving panoramas of Stanfield and other artists became highlights of the traditional Christmas pantomimes.

* Halifax Stanfield International Airport — RCMP airport detachment

In 1951, at the ICAAAA Championships, Stanfield — in the outside lane — won the Turn 220-Yard Dash in 20. 6.

Dowson also filed his nomination papers as a " Labour " canadidate against new Progressive Conservative leader Robert Stanfield in the 1967 Colchester — Hants by-election but withdrew when Elwood Smith entered the race as an Independent candidate with informal NDP backing.

Clarkson Frederick Stanfield ( 3 December 1793 – 18 May 1867 ) was a prominent English marine painter ; he is often though inaccurately called William Clarkson Stanfield.

To this day, Canadian political commentators still point to this incident as one of Canada's foremost examples of " image politics ", because the photo was chosen for the front pages of newspapers across Canada even though many other photos of Stanfield catching the same football were also available.

After the decision was made to have a leadership convention in 1967, Camp left the presidency of the party and briefly considered campaigning for leadership of the party ; however, when Robert Stanfield decided to run, Camp lent his organizational support to Stanfield's campaign.

Stanfield arrived at the convention with considerable momentum, but it was his speech to the Policy Session of the convention on the Tuesday night that made him the candidate to beat.

Stanfield ’ s speech was well-crafted, but lacked the spark that had made his Tuesday evening speech so effective.

Following the death of former Nova Scotia premier Robert L. Stanfield in 2003, there was a motion made to rename the MacKay Bridge to honour Stanfield, however the Stanfield family did not want any current structures already named for persons to be changed for Stanfield's sake.

* 1995: Thursday 27 April 1995, the purchase of a book by Paul Stanfield, Product Manager for CompuServe UK, from W H Smith ’ s shop within CompuServe ’ s UK Shopping Centre is the UK ’ s first national online shopping service secure transaction.

Trudeau later ( in October 1975 ) instituted wage and price controls, something which he had mocked Progressive Conservative Party leader Robert Stanfield for proposing during the election campaign a year earlier.

Mulroney, despite never having run for elected office, was encouraged to run in the leadership race to replace Stanfield, and entered the contest.

Chicago sent young forwards Phil Esposito, Ken Hodge and Fred Stanfield to Boston in exchange for Pit Martin, Jack Norris and Gilles Marotte.

While Martin would star for the Hawks for many seasons, Esposito, Hodge, and Stanfield would lead the Bruins to the top of the league for several years and capture two Stanley Cups.

Dr. Coe began operating excursion trains to bring interested buyers to Stanfield to see the lots that were being offered for sale.

A bank building was built with an office in the back for Sen. Stanfield.

Sen. Stanfield donated a number of parcels for public purposes, including the site of the high school.

* Oregon Blue Book entry for Stanfield

Progressive Conservative leader Robert Stanfield went so far as to say that, " Quite frankly, I've admired Tommy Douglas and David Lewis, and those fellows in the NDP for having the courage to vote against that, although they took a lot of abuse at the time .... I don't brood about it.

After Lloyd Robertson left CBC Television in 1976, the program conducted its own on-air auditions for his replacement as anchor of The National, eventually choosing Robert Stanfield as its nominee.

In early 2010, Halifax Stanfield was rated by passengers as the Best Airport in the World in its class ( under 5 million ) for the seventh year in a row.

On 10 June 1838 he gave a memorable performance of Henry V, for which Stanfield prepared sketches, and the mounting was superintended by Bulwer, Dickens, Forster, Maclise, WJ Fox and other friends.

A 1830 tour through Germany and Italy furnished Stanfield with material for two more moving panoramas, The Military Pass of the Simplon ( 1830 ) and Venice and Its Adjacent Islands ( 1831 ).

Stanfield was admired not only for his art but his personal simplicity and a modesty.

After working for a while at the Coburg Theatre, Roberts moved to the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane to create dioramas and panoramas with Stanfield.

In 2011 Rick Manzarek gathered a new band for Rick & the Ravens, playing guitar with Rob Stanfield singing and playing rhythm guitar, Steve Cress on lead guitar, Pete Tebow on bass, Paul Estrip on drums, and Scott Ferris playing harmonica.

Stanfield entered the campaign for the party leadership.

After his retirement, Stanfield stayed out of politics until the constitutional debates, when he endorsed and campaigned for the Meech Lake Accord, the Charlottetown Accord, and free trade.