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REDGRAVE, RICHARD (1804-1888)
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See also:REDGRAVE, See also:RICHARD (1804-1888) , See also:English artist, was See also:born at Pimlico on the 30th of See also:April 1804, and worked at first as a designer. He became a student in the Royal See also:Academy See also:Schools in 1826, and was elected an See also:Associate in 184o and an Academician in 1851 (retired, 1882). His " Gulliver on the See also:Farmer's Table " (1837) made his reputation as a painter. He began in 1847 a connexion with the See also:Government See also:Art Schools which lasted for a See also:long See also:term of years, and among other posts he held those of inspector-See also:general of art in the See also:Science and Art See also:Department, and art director of the See also:South See also:Kensington Museum. He was greatly instrumental in the See also:establishment of this institution, and he claimed the See also:credit of having secured the See also:Sheepshanks and Ellison gifts for the nation. He was also surveyor of the royal pictures. He was offered, but declined, a See also:knighthood in 1869. Redgrave was an assiduous painter of landscape and genre; his best pictures being " See also:Country See also:Cousins " (1848) and " The Return of Olivia " (1848), both in the See also:national collection, " The Sempstress " (1844), " Well See also:Spring in the See also:Forest " (1865). He died on the 14th of See also:December 1888. See the Memoir by F. M. Redgrave, 1891. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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