'Near Charlton, Kent', John Inigo Richards

Artwork details

Artist

John Inigo Richards (1731‑1810)

Title

Near Charlton, Kent

Date ?c.1753-65

MediumGraphite and watercolour on paper

Dimensionssupport: 145 x 212 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Purchased as part of the Oppé Collection with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund 1996

Reference

T08270

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Richards combined a career as both landscape and scenery painter, being principal painter at Covent Garden theatre for over twenty years. He was a painter chiefly of topographical landscapes, and these cover locations from Kent, Surrey and the West Country as far afield as Ireland. However, some of his views seem to have been copied from paintings by others. For example, this watercolour may have been copied after a (lost) oil of Charlton Wood by the landscape painter George Lambert (1700-1765). Richards was a founder member of the Royal Academy in 1768… (read more)

September 2004