Artist
Jonathan Richardson
British, 1665–1745
Jonathan Richardson was a British Impressionism artist. 10 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum. Jonathan Richardson was born in London.
Jonathan Richardson (12 January 1667 – 28 May 1745), sometimes called "the Elder" to distinguish him from his son, was an English artist, collector of drawings and writer on art, working almost entirely as a portrait-painter in London. He was considered by some art-critics as one of the three foremost painters of his time. He was the master of Thomas Hudson and George Knapton.
Richardson was even more influential as a writer; he is credited with inspiring Joshua Reynolds to paint and theorise with his book An Essay on the Theory of Painting. This book is credited with being "the first significant work of artistic theory in English."
Works by Jonathan Richardson
Sir Andrew Fountaine
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
Henry, Lord Herbert, Later 10th Earl of Pembroke
Windsor Castle
Notre Dame from the Pont du Jardin du Roi, Paris
Monument of Archbishop Greenfield in the Eastern Aisle of the North Transept of York Minster
Portrait of Thomas Hudson
H Beard Print Collection
H Beard Print Collection
Collections represented
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