Richard Redgrave. Richard Redgrave was an English landscape artist, genre painter and administrator.
He was born in Pimlico, London, at 2 Belgrave Terrace, the second son of William Redgrave, and younger brother of Samuel Redgrave. While employed in his father's manufacturing firm, he visited the British Museum to make drawings of the marble sculptures there.
His work The River Brent, near Hanwell of 1825 saw him admitted to the Royal Academy schools the next year. He left his father's firm in 1830 and began to make a living teaching art.
He worked at first as a designer. He was elected an Associate in 1840 and an Academician in 1851.
His Gulliver on the Farmer's Table made his reputation as a painter. He became an assiduous painter of landscape and genre; his best pictures being Country Cousins, Olivia's Return to her Parents, The Sempstress and A Well-spring in the Forest. 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 Government School of Design, as botanical lecturer and teacher, he became head-master in 1848, and art superintendent in 1852. He was inspector-general for art at the Science and Art Department in 1857. The first Keeper of Paintings at South Kensington Museum, he was greatly instrumental in the establishment of this institution, and he claimed the credit of having se
He was born in Pimlico, London, at 2 Belgrave Terrace, the second son of William Redgrave, and younger brother of Samuel Redgrave. While employed in his father's manufacturing firm, he visited the British Museum to make drawings of the marble sculptures there.
His work The River Brent, near Hanwell of 1825 saw him admitted to the Royal Academy schools the next year. He left his father's firm in 1830 and began to make a living teaching art.
He worked at first as a designer. He was elected an Associate in 1840 and an Academician in 1851.
His Gulliver on the Farmer's Table made his reputation as a painter. He became an assiduous painter of landscape and genre; his best pictures being Country Cousins, Olivia's Return to her Parents, The Sempstress and A Well-spring in the Forest. 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 Government School of Design, as botanical lecturer and teacher, he became head-master in 1848, and art superintendent in 1852. He was inspector-general for art at the Science and Art Department in 1857. The first Keeper of Paintings at South Kensington Museum, he was greatly instrumental in the establishment of this institution, and he claimed the credit of having se
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