1-273-615 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Richard Redgrave, landscape painter, 1878. His early years as an artist were difficult ones, until in 1837 he exhibited 'Gulliver on the Farmer's Table', which brought him to the attention of a wide audience. Among his best-known works are, 'Ophelia wearing her Garlands', 'The Thames from Millbank', 'Cinderella', 'The Poor Teacher' and 'The Poet's Study'. In 1858 Queen Victoria appointed him Surveyour of Crown Pictures. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (Conducted by G. C. Whitfield.) (London, 1876-1883).