1852 Born at the Portland, Maine, Alms House; adopted by Capt. Gideon L. and Elizabeth H. Stanwood
1863 Enrolled at Gorham Academy, Gorham, Maine
1870 Began career as a mariner
1873 Sketched while on a voyage to Peru
1877 Left the sea and became a marine and landscape painter; resided in Gorham, Maine, with a studio in Portland
1878 Moved to Portland; studio at 191 Middle St.; produced earliest known White Mountain works
1882 Became a member of the Portland Society of Art
1883 Exhibited at Horace G. Hewes Art Studio, Portland
1885 Moved to Gorham, Maine, after death of father
1888 Died of tuberculosis in Gorham, Maine; buried in Portland, Maine; gravestone inscribed “Marine Artist”; two of his writings published in The Poets of Maine
Franklin Stanwood, c. 1880, from a scrapbook at the Portland Museum of Art. Courtesy of the Maine Sunday Telegram.
