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Frederick Richard Pickersgill
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Frederick Richard Pickersgill
Frederick Richard Pickersgill (25 September – 20 December ) was an English painter and book illustrator. Born in London into a family of artists, he was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools in He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy between and Most of these works depicted scenes drawn from literature (including Edmund Spenser and John Milton), religion, and history.
Pickersgill's The Burial of Harold was accepted as a decoration for the Houses of Parliament in for the sum of £ He also did some landscapes under the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites.
In Pickersgill was photographed at The Photography Institute bygd Robert Howlett, as part of a series of portraits of artists. The picture was among a group exhibited at the Art Treasures Exhibition in Manchester in In addition, Pickersgill seems to have experimented with photography himself.
Pickersgill was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in and a full Royal Academician in June , but ret
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Introduction
Frederick Richard Pickersgill. Photograph by David Wilkie Wynfield. [Click on image to enlarge it.]
Pickersgill’s work as a painter working in the historical style is generally well-known. His activities as an illustrator, on the other hand, have been undervalued. His book designs are briefly discussed by Goldman (, , pp. –13) and Reid (, pp. –51), and the artist is listed in most reference books on Victorian illustration; however, his printed work has never been the subject of sustained investigation.
Born in , Pickersgill’s professional life spanned several changes in graphic style. In the twenties, the dominant idiom was the comic grotesque of Cruikshank; in the fifties and sixties the centre stage was taken by the poetic naturalism of Millais, Pinwell, and Sandys; and Pickersgill was still alive in the s, when the art nouveau of Beardsley and Ricketts was in fashion. He did not engage with any of these, even if his illustrations appeared in conjunction with artis