Richard Burchett. Richard Burchett was a British artist and educator on the fringes of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who was for over twenty years the Headmaster of what later became the Royal College of Art.
He was later described as a prominent figure in the art-schools, a well-instructed painter, and a teacher exceptionally equipped with all the learning of his craft by his ex-pupil, the poet Austin Dobson. Burchett's pupils included the extremely varied talents of Kate Greenaway, Christopher Dresser, Elizabeth Thompson, Sir George Clausen, Sir Luke Fildes, Gertrude Jekyll, Hubert von Herkomer, William Harbutt and Helen Allingham.
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Queen Victoria's daughter, and a talented artist, was also a student. As an artist he achieved some reputation for large history paintings, and decorated public buildings including parts of the Palace of Westminster and the Victoria and Albert Museum, but his View across Sandown Bay, Isle of Wight is seen by modern art historians as his best work.
Burchett published collections of his lectures as text-books for the South Kensington system of art education, which he helped to devise. Burchett was born in Brighton on 30 January 1815.
He attended the London Mechanics Institute in Chancery Lane, before in about 1841 entering the Government School of Design, founded three years before in 1837, which he was later to head, and which event
He was later described as a prominent figure in the art-schools, a well-instructed painter, and a teacher exceptionally equipped with all the learning of his craft by his ex-pupil, the poet Austin Dobson. Burchett's pupils included the extremely varied talents of Kate Greenaway, Christopher Dresser, Elizabeth Thompson, Sir George Clausen, Sir Luke Fildes, Gertrude Jekyll, Hubert von Herkomer, William Harbutt and Helen Allingham.
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Queen Victoria's daughter, and a talented artist, was also a student. As an artist he achieved some reputation for large history paintings, and decorated public buildings including parts of the Palace of Westminster and the Victoria and Albert Museum, but his View across Sandown Bay, Isle of Wight is seen by modern art historians as his best work.
Burchett published collections of his lectures as text-books for the South Kensington system of art education, which he helped to devise. Burchett was born in Brighton on 30 January 1815.
He attended the London Mechanics Institute in Chancery Lane, before in about 1841 entering the Government School of Design, founded three years before in 1837, which he was later to head, and which event
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