# Richard Redgrave > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Richard_Redgrave > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Richard_Redgrave.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Redgrave > Source revision: 1347952403 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) English painter Richard Redgrave Richard Redgrave, in a carte de visite (1860s) Born (1804-04-30)30 April 1804 London, England Died 14 December 1888(1888-12-14) (aged 84) London, England Occupation English painter **Richard Redgrave** [RA](/source/List_of_Royal_Academicians) (30 April 1804 in [Pimlico](/source/Pimlico), [London](/source/London) – 14 December 1888 in [Kensington](/source/Kensington), [London](/source/London))[1] was an English landscape artist, genre painter, author, and administrator. ## Early life He was born in [Pimlico](/source/Pimlico), London, at 2 Belgrave Terrace, the second son of William Redgrave, and younger brother of [Samuel Redgrave](/source/Samuel_Redgrave). While employed in his father's manufacturing firm, he visited the [British Museum](/source/British_Museum) to make drawings of the [marble sculptures](/source/Marble_sculpture) there.[2] His work *The River Brent, near Hanwell* of 1825 saw him admitted to the [Royal Academy](/source/Royal_Academy) schools the next year. He left his father's firm in 1830 and began to make a living teaching art.[3] ## Career Well Spring Carafe, 1847–1851 designed by Richard Redgrave [V&A Museum](/source/Victoria_and_Albert_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](/source/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. Richard Redgrave by J. P. Mayall from Artists at Home, photogravure, published 1884, [Department of Image Collections](https://www.nga.gov/research/library/imagecollections.html), National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC He began in 1847 a connection with the [Government School of Design](/source/Royal_College_of_Art), as [botanical](/source/Botanical) lecturer and teacher, he became head-master in 1848, and art superintendent in 1852.[3] He was inspector-general for art at the [Science and Art Department](/source/Science_and_Art_Department) in 1857. The first Keeper of Paintings at [South Kensington Museum](/source/South_Kensington_Museum), he was greatly instrumental in the establishment of this institution, and he claimed the credit of having secured the [Sheepshanks](/source/John_Sheepshanks_(art_collector)) and Ellison gifts for the nation. Redgrave received the cross of the [Legion of Honour](/source/Legion_of_Honour) after serving on the executive committee of the British section of the [Paris Exhibition of 1855](/source/Paris_Exhibition_of_1855).[3] 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.[4] He was [surveyor of crown pictures](/source/Surveyor_of_the_Queen's_Pictures) from 1856–1880, during which period he produced a 34-volume catalogue detailing the pictures at [Windsor Castle](/source/Windsor_Castle), [Buckingham Palace](/source/Buckingham_Palace), [Hampton Court](/source/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.[3] ## Later life External videos Redgrave's The Sempstress, Smarthistory He was offered, but declined, a [knighthood](/source/Knighthood) in 1869. He died at 84 [Hyde Park Gate](/source/Hyde_Park_Gate), Kensington, London, on 14 December 1888 and is buried in [Brompton Cemetery](/source/Brompton_Cemetery). ## Gallery - Funerary monument, [Brompton Cemetery](/source/Brompton_Cemetery) - Memorial in [St Mary Abbots](/source/St_Mary_Abbots), Kensington - *[The Thames from Millbank](/source/The_Thames_from_Millbank)*, 1836 - *[Bad News from Sea](/source/Bad_News_from_Sea)*, 1842 - *[Ophelia Weaving Her Garlands](/source/Ophelia_Weaving_Her_Garlands)*, 1842 - *[Cinderella About to Try on the Glass Slipper](/source/Cinderella_About_to_Try_on_the_Glass_Slipper)*, 1842 - *Going into Service*, 1843 - *[The Sempstress](/source/The_Sempstress)*, 1844 - *[The Governess](/source/The_Governess_(painting))*, 1844 - [*The Outcast*](/source/The_Outcast_(Redgrave_painting)), 1851 - *The Sylvan Spring*, 1854 - *Young Lady Bountiful*, 1861 - *Gulliver in [Brobdingnag](/source/Brobdingnag)*, Victoria and Albert Museum ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Search Results for England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007 - findmypast.co.uk"](https://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/england-and-wales-deaths-1837-2007?firstname=richard&lastname=redgrave&eventyear=1888&eventyear_offset=2). *Search.findmypast.co.uk*. Retrieved 24 May 2018. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Richard Redgrave | British painter"](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Redgrave). *Encyclopedia Britannica*. Retrieved 14 September 2018. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-DNB00_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-DNB00_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-DNB00_3-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-DNB00_3-3) [Graves 1896](#CITEREFGraves1896), pp. 379–380. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Richard Redgrave - Person - National Portrait Gallery"](https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp03732/richard-redgrave). *www.npg.org.uk*. Retrieved 14 September 2018. **Bibliography** - Graves, Robert Edmund (1896). ["Redgrave, Richard"](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Redgrave,_Richard). In [Lee, Sidney](/source/Sidney_Lee) (ed.). *[Dictionary of National Biography](/source/Dictionary_of_National_Biography)*. Vol. 47. London: [Smith, Elder & Co](/source/Smith%2C_Elder_%26_Co). pp. 379–380. - This article incorporates text from a publication now in the [public domain](/source/Public_domain): [Chisholm, Hugh](/source/Hugh_Chisholm), ed. (1911). "[Redgrave, Richard](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Redgrave,_Richard)". *[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition)* (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. - Mullen, Chris (1988) [1980]. *The Dictionary of British Artists 1880 –1940: An Antique Collectors' Club Research Project listing 41,000 artists*. Antique Collectors' Club. - Redgrave, Frances Margaret (1891), [*Richard Redgrave, C.B., R.A.: A memoir compiled from his diary*](https://books.google.com/books?id=4k4pAAAAYAAJ), London: Cassall & Co. ## External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Richard Redgrave](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Richard_Redgrave). - [24 artworks by or after Richard Redgrave](https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/search/actor:redgrave-richard-18041888) at the [Art UK](/source/Art_UK) site - [Richard Redgrave | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts](https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/richard-redgrave-ra) - [Richard Redgrave 1804-1888 | Tate](https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/richard-redgrave-441) - [Biography of Richard Redgrave, CB, RA - Victoria and Albert Museum](http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/b/biography-richard-redgrave/) v t e Richard Redgrave Paintings The Thames from Millbank (1836) Bad News from Sea (1842) Ophelia Weaving Her Garlands (1842) Cinderella About to Try on the Glass Slipper (1842) The Sempstress (1844) The Governess (1844) The Outcast (1851) Related Samuel Redgrave (brother) Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND FAST WorldCat National United States France BnF data Czech Republic Netherlands Norway Greece Israel Catalonia Artists ULAN MusicBrainz RKD Artists KulturNav Musée d'Orsay National Gallery of Canada South Australia People Trove Deutsche Biographie DDB Other IdRef Open Library SNAC Te Papa (New Zealand) Yale LUX --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Richard Redgrave](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Redgrave) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Redgrave?action=history)). 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