Richard Redgrave

He was born in Pimlico, London, at 2 Belgrave Terrace, the second son of William Redgrave, and younger brother of Samuel Redgrave. While employed in his father's manufacturing firm, he visited the British Museum to make drawings of the marble sculptures there. His work The River Brent, near Hanwell of 1825 saw him admitted to the Royal Academy schools the next year. He left his father's firm in 1830 and began to make a living teaching art. ==Career==

no. 4503-1901 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. File:Richard Redgrave by J. P. Mayall.jpg|left|thumb|290x290px|Richard Redgrave by J. P. Mayall from Artists at Home, photogravure, published 1884, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC He began in 1847 a connection with the Government School of Design, as botanical lecturer and teacher, he became head-master in 1848, and art superintendent in 1852. He was surveyor of crown pictures from 1856–1880, during which period he produced a 34-volume catalogue detailing the pictures at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, Hampton Court, 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 knighthood in 1869. He died at 84 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington, London, on 14 December 1888 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery. ==Gallery==

File:RichardRedgraveBrompton01.jpg|Funerary monument, Brompton Cemetery File:St Mary Abbots 16.JPG|Memorial in St Mary Abbots, Kensington File:The Thames From Millbank.jpg|The Thames from Millbank, 1836 File:Bad News from Sea.png|Bad News from Sea, 1842 File:Ophelia Weaving Her Garlands.png|Ophelia Weaving Her Garlands, 1842 File:Richard Redgrave - Cinderella About to Try on the Glass Slipper.jpg|Cinderella About to Try on the Glass Slipper, 1842 File:Richard Redgrave - Going into Service.JPG|Going into Service, 1843 File:Richard Redgrave - The Sempstress.jpg|The Sempstress, 1844 File:The Governess by Richard Redgrave.jpg|The Governess, 1844 File:The Outcast (1851) - Richard Redgrave.jpg|The Outcast, 1851 File:Sylvan Spring (Redgrave).png|The Sylvan Spring, 1854 File:Young Lady Bountiful.png|Young Lady Bountiful, 1861 File:Szene aus Gulliver's Reisen - Gulliver in Brobdingnag.jpg|Gulliver in Brobdingnag, Victoria and Albert Museum ==References==