- Richard Redgrave
Richard Redgrave RA (
30 April 1804 -14 December 1888 ) was an Englishartist .Early life
Redgrave was born in
Pimlico in 1804.Career
He worked at first as a designer. He became a student in the Royal Academy Schools in 1826, and was elected an Associate in 1840 and an Academician in 1851 (retired, 1882). His "Gulliver on the Farmers Table" (1837) made his reputation as a painter.
Redgrave was an assiduous painter of landscape and genre; his best pictures being "Country Cousins" (1848), "The Return of Olivia" (1848), "The Sempstress" (1844) and "Well Spring in the Forest" (1865).
He began in 1847 a connection with the
Government Art Schools which lasted for a long term of years, and among other posts he held those of inspector-general of art in theScience and Art Department , and art director of theSouth Kensington Museum . He was greatly instrumental in the establishment of this institution, and he claimed the credit of having secured the Sheepshanks and Ellison gifts for the nation.He was
Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures 1856-1880.Later life
He was offered, but declined, a
knighthood in 1869.He died in 1888 and is buried in
Brompton Cemetery , London.References
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