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1863 Birmingham, England - 1935 Bournemouth, England. Known for: Plein-aire landscape painting, rural scenes, marine, magazine illustration.
Frank Richards RBA (1863-1935) was a landscape, figure and portrait painter and illustrator, working in both oil and watercolour. Born in Birmingham in 1863, he studied art at the Birmingham School... Read full biography
Frank Richards RBA (1863-1935) was a landscape, figure and portrait painter and illustrator, working in both oil and watercolour. Born in Birmingham in 1863, he studied art at the Birmingham School of Art and one of his contemporaries there who became a well-known painter and illustrator was Arthur... Read full biography
Frank Richards RBA (1863-1935) was a landscape, figure and portrait painter and illustrator, working in both oil and watercolour. Born in Birmingham in 1863, he studied art at the Birmingham School of Art and one of his contemporaries there who became a well-known painter and illustrator was Arthur Joseph Gaskin. Richards remained in Birmingham until 1883 before traveling in Europe and North Africa painting plein-air, a mode of painting espoused by the Impressionist and Post-Impressionists... Read full biography
Frank Richards RBA (1863-1935) was a landscape, figure and portrait painter and illustrator, working in both oil and watercolour. Born in Birmingham in 1863, he studied art at the Birmingham School of Art and one of his contemporaries there who became a well-known painter and illustrator was Arthur Joseph Gaskin. Richards remained in Birmingham until 1883 before traveling in Europe and North Africa painting plein-air, a mode of painting espoused by the Impressionist and Post-Impressionists which had a significant influence on many British artists, particularly the Newlyn School and some elements of the Scottish School. He was elected a member of the Birmingham Society of Artists in 1884 and in 1885 was living at an address in Lulworth in... Read full biography
Frank Richards RBA (1863-1935) was a landscape, figure and portrait painter and illustrator, working in both oil and watercolour. Born in Birmingham in 1863, he studied art at the Birmingham School of Art and one of his contemporaries there who became a well-known painter and illustrator was Arthur Joseph Gaskin. Richards remained in Birmingham until 1883 before traveling in Europe and North Africa painting plein-air, a mode of painting espoused by the Impressionist and Post-Impressionists which had a significant influence on many British artists, particularly the Newlyn School and some elements of the Scottish School. He was elected a member of the Birmingham Society of Artists in 1884 and in 1885 was living at an address in Lulworth in Dorset. In 1887, he was back in Birmingham but had moved to Newlyn by 1892 to work more closely with like-minded painters such as... Read full biography
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Frank Richards RBA (1863-1935) was a landscape, figure and portrait painter and illustrator, working in both oil and watercolour. Born in Birmingham in 1863, he studied art at the Birmingham School of Art and one of his contemporaries there who became a well-known painter and illustrator was Arthur Joseph Gaskin.
Richards remained in Birmingham until 1883 before traveling in Europe and North Africa painting plein-air, a mode of painting espoused by the Impressionist and Post-Impressionists which had a significant influence on many British artists, particularly the Newlyn School and some elements of the Scottish School.
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