Samuel Ward Stanton

[Encyclopedia Titanica]

Samuel Ward Stanton : Titanic Victim

Stanton was a well-known artist and mural painter. He was returning from Spain and Paris, where he had made sketches for a notable mural decoration. These sketches, a series of of scenes in the Alhambra, Granada, were lost when the Titanic went down.

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[Bill Worden]

The Hudson River steamer for which Stanton was preparing by visiting the Alhambra was the Washington Irving, not the Knickerbocker. The boat was, indeed, built in 1912 and featured a writing room whose decoration was based on the Alhambra. The room was designed by Louis O. Keil; Stanton was to paint appropriate paintings to decorate the space as well as other areas of the vessel.