Gilbert Richard Redgrave (12 May 1844 in

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, London – 14 June 1941 in

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) was an English architectural draughtsman, bibliographer and

art historian Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

. Redgrave was son of the painter Richard Redgrave and his wife Rose Margaret Bacon (1811–). In the 1860s he worked on the design of the

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, writing the programme of its opening ceremony. He was manager of the first

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at Muswell Hill, destroyed by fire shortly after its opening in 1873, and architect to the Royal Commissioners of the

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in 1878. He became an Officer of the Légion d'honneur and a member of the Athenaeum Club. Secretary of the 1881–84

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, Redgrave became an Inspector of Schools, rising to become chief senior inspector of

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s under the Board of Education in 1897 and assistant secretary to the Board in 1900. He edited his father's writings and addresses, and published several works of his own on art history. He was president of the

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of London in 1908, and with Alfred W. Pollard edited the

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, or ''A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475–1640'' (1926).Early English books, 1475-1640: Pollard & Redgrave Collection
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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Redgrave, Gilbert Richard 1844 births 1941 deaths English bibliographers English art historians Architects from London