George Richmond - Artist Info

About George Richmond

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    George Richmond RA (28 March 1809 – 19 March 1896) was an English painter and portraitist. In his youth he was a member of The Ancients, a group of followers of William Blake. Later in life he established a career as a portrait painter, which included painting the portraits of the British gentry, nobility and royalty.

    He was the son of Thomas Richmond, miniature-painter, and was the father of the painter William Blake Richmond as well as the grandfather of the naval historian, Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond.

    A keen follower of cricket, Richmond was noted in one obituary as having been "an habitué of Lord's since 1816"

    George was born at Brompton, then a country village, on 28 March 1809. His mother, Ann Richmond, came of ...

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