Benjamin Richard Green (1807/8–1876) was an English watercolour painter and author.
[Baker 2004.] He exhibited at the Royal Academy and Suffolk Street exhibitions from 1832, and executed several works in lithography besides watercolours.
[Cust 1890, p. 41.]
Life
Benjamin Richard Green, born in London in 1807 or 1808,
was son of
James Green, the portrait painter. He studied art in the schools of the
Royal Academy
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, and painted both figures and landscapes, mostly in watercolour. He was elected in 1834 a member of the
Institute of Painters in Water-Colours
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History
In 1831 the so ...
. Green was very much employed as a teacher of drawing and a lecturer. He exhibited frequently at the Royal Academy and the Suffolk Street exhibitions, beginning in 1832, and also at the various exhibitions of paintings in watercolours. In 1829 Green published a numismatic atlas of ancient history, executed in
lithography
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; a French edition of this work was published in the same year. Green also published some works on
perspective, a lecture on ancient coins, and a series of heads from the antique. He was for many years secretary of the
Artists' Annuity Fund, and died in London on 5 October 1876, aged 68. There is a watercolour drawing by him of the ''Interior of Stratford-on-Avon Church'' which entered the collection of the
South Kensington Museum
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Etymology
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Gallery
File:Still Life, by Benjamin Richard Green (1) (cropped).jpg, Circular watercolour still life with an ornamental goblet and an upturned bowl, .
File:Still Life, by Benjamin Richard Green (2) (cropped).jpg, Circular watercolour still life with a small marble sculpture of a seated female, before an urn and a ewer or jug, .
File:Mercury (Hermes). Lithograph by B.R. Green. Wellcome V0035813.jpg, Mercury ermes ERMES (European Radio Messaging System or Enhanced Radio Messaging System) was a pan-European radio paging system.
Technical specification
In 1990, the European Telecommunications Standard Institute (ETSI) developed the European Telecommunications ...
Lithograph by B.R. Green.
References
Sources
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Attribution:
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Further reading
* Bryan, Michael (1886). "Green, Benjamin Robert". ''Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers''
Vol. 1 New ed. Graves, Robert Edward (ed.). London: George Bell and Sons. p. 597.
* Graves, Algernon (1884).
A Dictionary of Artists Who Have Exhibited Works in the Principal London Exhibitions of Oil Paintings From 1760 to 1880'. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 99.
* Redgrave, Samuel (1878)
"Green, Benjamin R."''A Dictionary of Artists of the English School''. New ed. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 185.
"Green, Benjamin Richard" ''
Benezit Dictionary of Artists
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.'' Oxford Art Online. 2011. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
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1800s births
1876 deaths
19th-century English painters
English watercolourists