Richard Redgrave C.B., R.A; A Memoir, Compiled from His Diary (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. 18.30?1846. Close of his Account of his Karly Years?His Painting?His Sketching Tours ?Goes to Paris?Elected an Associate of the Uoyal Academy? His Pictures ?Letter from a Model?.Settles in Kensington? Attracted by the Preaching of Edward Irving?Marriage?Children?Death of his Father. [here a sudden stop occurs in my father's autobiography, which, unfortunately, was never resumed, though, in later life, he kept a tolerably voluminous diary. This diary, however, is intermittent until about the period of his election to the full honours of the Royal Academy; and his biography breaks off before he was made an Associate, and long before he began his work in connection with the Department of Practical Art, or his labours in organising that system of Art Education, which now prevails all over Great Britain and Ireland, and may, therefore, be called national. With regard, first of all, to his painting, he was gradually able to devote more time to that part of his work, and less to teaching. He had been hampered as a student with the latter necessity, and placed at a disadvantage, when competing for rewards, from the numberless interruptions to his painting, which the need of supporting himself by giving drawing lessons brought upon him. As early as 1831, however, a picture of his was well placed in the Academy Exhibition, the subject being" The Massacre of the Innocents." A wag of the time remarked that all the pictures deserving notice depicted scenes inspired by their painters' names, and amongst other examples he cites " A Ship putting out of Harbour,'' by Seaforth, and "The Massacre of the Innocents," by Redgrave. In the following year he did not exhibit, but in the succeeding springs he was represented each year on the Academy walls, and his pictures gradually...