Redgrave

Redgrave, RICHARD, painter, born in London on 30th April 1804, in 1826 was admitted a student of the Academy, and was elected an A.R.A. in 1840, an R.A. in 1851. From 1847 onwards he took a prominent part in art instruction, and in 1857 was appointed Inspector-general of Art Schools, which office, with that of Surveyor of the Royal Pictures, he resigned in 1880, being then created a C.B. In 1882 he was placed on the list of retired academicians, and next year he ceased to exhibit, having since 1825 contributed 145 pictures to the Academy, besides forty sent elsewhere. He wrote, with his brother, A Century of English Painters (1866), and edited several valuable catalogues. He died 14th December 1888. See Memoir by his daughter (1891).