Richard Redgrave RA

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Richard Redgrave was an English landscape artist, genre painter, and administrator. He was born in Pimlico, London in 1804. His works were exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, the British Institution, and the Society of British Artists. He was elected an Associate member of the Royal Academy in 1840 and an Academician in 1851 (retired, 1882).

He began as a painter of literary subjects, but in the 1840s he became a pioneer of scenes of contemporary social concern. ‘It is one of my most gratifying feelings’, he wrote, ‘that many of my best efforts in art have aimed at calling attention to the trials and struggles of the poor and the oppressed.’ His later works were mostly landscapes, painted in a Pre-Raphaelite style.

He was Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures from 1857 to 1880 and also held various posts at the Government School of Design and the South Kensington (later Victoria and Albert) Museum.

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'THE WOODMANS DINNER' SIZE: H 24.5" x W 14.5" Result: £1,100 Date: 03/09/2025