RICHARD

See also:

• RICHARD REDGRAVE (1804-1888)

REDGRAVE (1804-1888)  , English artist, was born at Pimlico on the 30th of April 1804, and worked at first as a designer . He became a student in the Royal Academy Schools in 1826, and was elected an Associate in 184o and an Academician in 1851 (retired, 1882) . His " Gulliver on the Farmer's Table " (1837) made his reputation as a painter . He began in 1847 a connexion 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 the Science and Art Department, and art director of the South 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 also surveyor of the royal pictures . He was offered, but declined, a knighthood in 1869 . Redgrave was an assiduous painter of landscape and genre; his best pictures being " Country Cousins " (1848) and " The Return of Olivia " (1848), both in the national collection, " The Sempstress " (1844), " Well Spring in the Forest " (1865) . He died on the 14th of December 1888 . See the Memoir by F . M . Redgrave, 1891 .