Artist

Richard Corbould

View at Hampstead
View at Hampstead
H Beard Print Collection
H Beard Print Collection

United Kingdom

Richard Corbould is an United Kingdom British Romanticism artist. 5 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Richard Corbould (18 April 1757 – 17 July 1831) was an English artist. He was a painter, in oil and watercolour, of portraits, landscape, and occasionally history; of porcelain, and miniatures on ivory, and enamels; and was furthermore an important illustrator of books renowned for his Napoleonic sketches of Ships, and a follower of the old masters. From 1777 to 1811 he was a constant contributor to the Royal Academy. He died at Highgate, north London, in 1831. Of his works exhibited at the Royal Academy may be noticed:

1793. Cottagers gathering Sticks. 1802. Eve caressing Adam's Flock and The Archangel Michael. 1806. Ulysses's Descent into Hades. 1806. View at Hampstead. (In the South Kensington Museum.)

Works by Richard Corbould

Collections represented

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