Charles Douglas Richardson - Artist Info

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    "Richardson, Charles Douglas (1853–1932)" by Margaret Rose. This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 11, (MUP), 1988

    Charles Douglas Richardson (1853-1932), painter and sculptor, was born on 7 July 1853 at Islington, London, second son of John Richardson (1818-1862), artist, and his wife Mary Frances, née Holmes. The family migrated in 1858 to Victoria to join John's brother Thomas Elliott (1814-1869), Presbyterian minister and editor of the Portland Guardian. John Richardson set up a studio at Portland but moved to St Kilda, Melbourne, in 1860.

    Educated at Scotch College, Charles Douglas studied design at the School of Design, Carlton, from 1869. In 1871-73 (while apprenticed to the lith...

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