Son of an accountant
With John Powell at Royal Academy (RA) Schools (1826)
1825 – first RA exhibition; exhibits regularly until 1883
1820s-40s – regular exhibitor at the British Institution and the Royal Society of British Arts
1840 – elected member of RA
1847 –becomes professor at RA School of Design
1848 – appointed School of Design Headmaster
1851 – becomes full member of RA
1853 – publishes An Elementary Manual of Colour
1855 – member of British selection committee for Exposition universelle (Paris)
1857 – appointed Inspector-General for Art and Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures
1866 – publishes A Century of Painters of the British School
1877 – publishes Descriptive Catalogue of the Historical Collection of Watercolour Paintings in the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria & Albert Museum)
John Sheepshanks
The Sempstress, 1844 (1846 version in Forbes Magazine Collection)
Emigrant’s Last Sight of Home, 1858 (Tate, London)
Redgrave, Richard. Richard Redgrave, 1804-1888. Exhibition catalogue. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988