Richard Redgrave

Subject painter, born in London, UK. Inspector-general of art schools from 1857, he was much involved with the circle of Sir Henry Cole, and edited the Journal of Design and Manufactures. With his brother Samuel (1802–76) he wrote A Century of English Painters (1866) and Samuel also wrote Dictionary of Artists of the English School (1874).

Richard Redgrave (30 April 1804 - 14 December 1888) was an English artist born in Pimlico. He became a student in the Royal Academy Schools in 1826, and was elected an Associate in 1840 and an Academician in 1851 (retired, 1882). He began in 1847 a connection with the Government Art Schools which lasted for a long term of years, and among other posts he held those of inspector-general of art in the Science and Art Department, and art director of the South Kensington Museum. his best pictures being Country Cousins (1848) and The Return of Olivia (1848), The Sempstress (1844), Well Spring in the Forest (1865).

He was Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures 1856-1880.