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1868 Stockport, England - 1929 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Known for: Portrait, landscape, illustration.
Richard Partington was known as a prolific portrait painter in California during the turn of the century. He was born in Stockport, England in 1868, into a family of artists, and his father gave... Read full biography
Richard Partington was known as a prolific portrait painter in California during the turn of the century. He was born in Stockport, England in 1868, into a family of artists, and his father gave Richard and his sister Gertrude lessons in drawing, poetry, music and painting. In 1889 the Partington... Read full biography
Richard Partington was known as a prolific portrait painter in California during the turn of the century. He was born in Stockport, England in 1868, into a family of artists, and his father gave Richard and his sister Gertrude lessons in drawing, poetry, music and painting. In 1889 the Partington family moved to Oakland, California. Richard Partington and his father founded the Partington Art School across the hall from William Keiths studio on Pine Street in San Francisco. Partingtons father... Read full biography
Richard Partington was known as a prolific portrait painter in California during the turn of the century. He was born in Stockport, England in 1868, into a family of artists, and his father gave Richard and his sister Gertrude lessons in drawing, poetry, music and painting. In 1889 the Partington family moved to Oakland, California. Richard Partington and his father founded the Partington Art School across the hall from William Keiths studio on Pine Street in San Francisco. Partingtons father taught at the school and Richard worked for a time as a quick-sketch artist for the San Francisco Examiner newspaper. He exhibited two of his paintings at the Mid-Winter Fair in San Francisco in 1894. Richard moved back to Oakland after the 1906... Read full biography
Richard Partington was known as a prolific portrait painter in California during the turn of the century. He was born in Stockport, England in 1868, into a family of artists, and his father gave Richard and his sister Gertrude lessons in drawing, poetry, music and painting. In 1889 the Partington family moved to Oakland, California. Richard Partington and his father founded the Partington Art School across the hall from William Keiths studio on Pine Street in San Francisco. Partingtons father taught at the school and Richard worked for a time as a quick-sketch artist for the San Francisco Examiner newspaper. He exhibited two of his paintings at the Mid-Winter Fair in San Francisco in 1894. Richard moved back to Oakland after the 1906 earthquake and fire destroyed the school. He became the curator for the Piedmont Art Gallery and continued to paint portraits locally. He traveled to Philad... Read full biography
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Keywords (21)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
Art Subject
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Nocturnes, Nightime Scenes
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Seascapes, Seasides
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •California Before 1940
- •Monterey, Carmel California
- •Northern California Before 1900
Art Association
- •Allied Artists of America-
- •San Francisco Art Association-
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Exhibition of Art Association
- •San Francisco Art Association
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts