Richard Brydges Beechey
Richard Brydges Beechey (1808 – Unknown) was an
Early life
Beechey was born to two British painters, Sir William Beechey and his second wife, Anne Jessop.[1] His brothers included the British sea captain and painter Frederick William Beechey, the portraitist Henry William Beechey and the painter George Duncan Beechey.
Beechey joined the Royal Navy at the age of 14, and he eventually rose to the rank of admiral. Like his father and some of his brothers, he was a celebrated painter, who illustrated various ports and naval scenes.[2]
Career
After the
After his retirement from the navy in 1864, he settled in Ireland, living for many years at Monkstown, and later in Pembroke Road, Dublin. He regularly exhibited paintings of maritime subjects at the Royal Hibernian Academy, of which was made an honorary member in 1868. In about 1877, he settled at Plymouth. [6]
Family
In 1844, he married Frideswide Maria Moore Smyth (1819–1885) of Portlick Castle, Westmeath.[7] They had two daughters, Annie L. Beechey and Frideswide F. Beechey (1851–1919). In 1882, his daughter Frideswide was the first woman to win a prize as a composer of chess problems. Her book Chess Blossoms was published in 1883, followed by Chess Fruits in 1884, which she co-wrote with her husband, Thomas B. Rowland.
In 1888, some three years after the death of his first wife, Beechey married Frances, daughter of the Rev. Annesley Stewart of
Death
Beechey died at 9 Portland Terrace, Southsea, on 8 March 1895.[6]
References
- ^ John Wilson, ‘Beechey, Sir William (1753–1839)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 accessed 2 May 2017
- ^ [1] Beechey at European Watercolours Oct. 02, 2007.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1948. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ISBN 1-85149-025-6.
- ^ "ADMIRALTY, June 16, 1879" (PDF). Edinburgh Gazette (9010): 623. 20 June 1879.
- ^ a b Strickland, Walter (1913). "BEECHEY, RICHARD BRYDGES, Hon. R.H.A.". A Dictionary of Irish Artists (Library Ireland online ed.).
- ^ [2] Portlick Castle. Retrieved Oct. 02, 2007
External links
- Richard Brydges Beechey page at Encyclopedia of Irish and World Art
- O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). John Murray – via Wikisource. . .