Richard Corbould
Richard Corbould (1757 in London – 1831 in London) was an English artist, sometimes misspelt "Corbold" .
Skiddaw from Derwentwater
The loss of the Romney, 1805, a copy is at the National Maritime Museum.
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.)
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Corbould, Richard". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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