AnsdeLL, RICHARD, animal and landscape painter, was born at Liverpool in 1815. Abandoning business for art, he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1840, and at the British Institute in 1846. A visit to Spain with John Phillip in 1856 led to a series of Spanish subjects. He thrice won the Heywood Medal at Manchester, and a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1855. He was elected A.R.A. in 1861, and R.A. in 1870. He died 20th April 1885.
AnsdeLL, RICHARD
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 299–300
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