Richard Redgrave

Richard Redgrave RA (30 April 1804 in Pimlico, London – 14 December 1888 in Kensington, London)^[1] was an English landscape artist, genre painter, and administrator.

Early life

He was born in

He worked at first as a designer. He was elected an Associate in 1840 and an Academician in 1851 (retired, 1882). His Gulliver on the Farmer's Table (1837) made his reputation as a painter. He became an assiduous painter of landscape and genre; his best pictures being Country Cousins (1848), Olivia's Return to her Parents (1839), The Sempstress (1844) and A Well-spring in the Forest (1877). Redgrave held three important exhibitions at the Royal Academy and one at Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers.

He began in 1847 a connection with the

Redgrave and his brother Samuel were the co-authors of the influential A Century of Painters of the English School, published in 1866, he also wrote also An Elementary Manual of Colour, 1853.[3]

Later life

External videos
Redgrave's The Sempstress, Smarthistory

He was offered, but declined, a

He died at 27 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington, London, on 14 December 1888 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery.

Gallery

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  Funerary monument, Brompton Cemetery
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  Memorial in St Mary Abbots, Kensington
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  The Outcast by Richard Redgrave
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  Gulliver in Brobdingnag, Victoria and Albert Museum

References

Bibliography

• Graves, Robert Edmund (1896). "Redgrave, Richard" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 379–380.
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Redgrave, Richard". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
• Mullen, Chris (1988) [1980]. The Dictionary of British Artists 1880 –1940: An Antique Collectors' Club Research Project listing 41,000 artists. Antique Collectors' Club.
• Redgrave, Frances Margaret (1891), Richard Redgrave, C.B., R.A.: A memoir compiled from his diary, London: Cassall & Co.

External links

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• 24 artworks by or after Richard Redgrave at the Art UK site
• Richard Redgrave | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts
• Richard Redgrave 1804-1888 | Tate
• Biography of Richard Redgrave, CB, RA - Victoria and Albert Museum