{{Short description|English painter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Infobox person | image = Richard Redgrave.jpg | image_upright = 0.8 | caption = Richard Redgrave, in a carte de visite (1860s) | birth_date = 30 April 1804 | birth_place = [[London]], England | death_date = 14 December 1888 | death_place = [[London]], England | occupation = English painter }}

'''Richard Redgrave''' {{Post-nominals|post-noms=[[List of Royal Academicians|RA]]}} (30 April 1804 in [[Pimlico]], [[London]] – 14 December 1888 in [[Kensington]], [[London]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/england-and-wales-deaths-1837-2007?firstname=richard&lastname=redgrave&eventyear=1888&eventyear_offset=2|title=Search Results for England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007 - findmypast.co.uk|website=Search.findmypast.co.uk|access-date=24 May 2018}}</ref> was an English landscape artist, genre painter, author, and administrator.

==Early life== 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 sculpture]]s there.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Redgrave|title=Richard Redgrave {{!}} British painter|work=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2018-09-14|language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref name=DNB00>{{harvnb|Graves|1896|pp=379–380}}.</ref>

==Career== [[Image:Carafevanda.jpg|thumb|Well Spring Carafe, 1847&ndash;1851 designed by Richard Redgrave [[Victoria and Albert Museum|V&A Museum]] 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, [https://www.nga.gov/research/library/imagecollections.html Department of Image Collections], National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC]] He began in 1847 a connection with the [[Royal College of Art|Government School of Design]], as [[botanical]] lecturer and teacher, he became head-master in 1848, and art superintendent in 1852.<ref name="DNB00" /> He was inspector-general for art at the [[Science and Art Department]] in 1857. The first Keeper of Paintings at [[South Kensington Museum]], he was greatly instrumental in the establishment of this institution, and he claimed the credit of having secured the [[John Sheepshanks (art collector)|Sheepshanks]] and Ellison gifts for the nation. Redgrave received the cross of the [[Legion of Honour]] after serving on the executive committee of the British section of the [[Paris Exhibition of 1855]].<ref name="DNB00" /> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp03732/richard-redgrave|title=Richard Redgrave - Person - National Portrait Gallery|website=www.npg.org.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-09-14}}</ref>

He was [[Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures|surveyor of crown pictures]] from 1856&ndash;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.<ref name="DNB00" />

==Later life== {{external media | width = 210px | float = right | video1 = [http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/redgrave-sempstress.html Redgrave's The Sempstress], [[Smarthistory]]}} 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== <gallery mode="packed"> 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 (painting)|The Governess]]'', 1844 File:The Outcast (1851) - Richard Redgrave.jpg|[[The Outcast (Redgrave painting)|''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 </gallery>

==References== {{Reflist}}

;Bibliography *{{cite DNB|first=Robert Edmund |last=Graves |wstitle=Redgrave, Richard |volume=47 |pages=379–380}} *{{EB1911|wstitle=Redgrave, Richard }} *{{cite book|first=Chris|last=Mullen|title=The Dictionary of British Artists 1880&nbsp;–1940: An Antique Collectors' Club Research Project listing 41,000 artists|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|orig-year=1980|date=1988|ref=pp.420}} *{{Citation |first=Frances Margaret |last=Redgrave |title=Richard Redgrave, C.B., R.A.: A memoir compiled from his diary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4k4pAAAAYAAJ |year=1891 |publisher=Cassall & Co. |location=London }}

==External links== {{commons category|Richard Redgrave}} * {{Art UK bio}} *[https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/richard-redgrave-ra Richard Redgrave | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts] *[https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/richard-redgrave-441 Richard Redgrave 1804-1888 | Tate] *[http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/b/biography-richard-redgrave/ Biography of Richard Redgrave, CB, RA - Victoria and Albert Museum]

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