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Richard Redgrave (30 April 1804 in
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,
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– 14 December 1888 in
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,
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) was an English landscape artist, genre painter and administrator.


Early life

He was born in
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, London, at 2 Belgrave Terrace, the second son of William Redgrave, and younger brother of
Samuel Redgrave Samuel Redgrave (3 October 1802, London - 20 March 1876 London) was an English civil servant and writer on art. Life He was eldest son of William Redgrave, and brother of Richard Redgrave, and was born at 9 Upper Eaton Street, Pimlico, London. Whe ...
. While employed in his father's manufacturing firm, he visited the
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to make drawings of the
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s there. His work ''The River Brent, near Hanwell'' of 1825 saw him admitted to the
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schools the next year. He left his father's firm in 1830 and began to make a living teaching art..


Career

He worked at first as a designer. He was elected an Associate in 1840 and an Academician in 1851 (retired, 1882). His ''Gulliver on the Farmer's Table'' (1837) made his reputation as a painter. He became an assiduous painter of landscape and genre; his best pictures being ''Country Cousins'' (1848), ''Olivia's Return to her Parents'' (1839), ''The Sempstress'' (1844) and ''A Well-spring in the Forest'' (1877). 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
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lecturer and teacher, he became head-master in 1848, and art superintendent in 1852. He was inspector-general for art at the
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in 1857. The first Keeper of Paintings at
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, 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. Redgrave received the cross of the
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after serving on the executive committee of the British section of the Paris Exhibition of 1855. The income provided for an impressive house at Hyde Park Gate, overlooking the park, in one of the most prestigious addresses in London. His children Evelyn Leslie Redgrave and Frances M Redgrave were celebrated painters. He was surveyor of crown pictures from 1856–80, during which period he produced a 34-volume catalogue detailing the pictures at
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, and other royal residences. Redgrave and his brother Samuel were the co-authors of the influential ''A Century of Painters of the English School,'' published in 1866, he also wrote also ''An Elementary Manual of Colour,'' 1853.


Later life

He was offered, but declined, a
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in 1869. He died at 27 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington, London, on 14 December 1888 and is buried in
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.


Gallery

File:RichardRedgraveBrompton01.jpg, Funerary monument,
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, Kensington File:TheOutcastRichardRedgrave.jpg, ''The Outcast'' by Richard Redgrave File:Szene aus Gulliver's Reisen - Gulliver in Brobdingnag.jpg, ''Gulliver in
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'', Victoria and Albert Museum


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Richard Redgrave , Artist , Royal Academy of ArtsRichard Redgrave 1804-1888 , TateBiography of Richard Redgrave, CB, RA - Victoria and Albert Museum
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