Thomas Richmond, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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British artist
Date of Birth: 16-Sep-1802
Place of Birth: London
Date of Death: 13-Nov-1874
Profession: painter
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Thomas Richmond
- Thomas Richmond (1802–1874) was a British portrait painter, known for his idealised pictures in the so-called keepsake style.
- He was the son of Thomas Richmond (1771–1837), the miniature painter, and the brother of George Richmond.Richmond initially practiced in Sheffield, and later moved to London.
- His main clientele was among the hunting fraternity.
- Between 1833 and 1860 he exhibited fifty one portraits in London.
- He exhibited forty-five portraits at the Royal Academy and six at the Suffolk Street gallery.
- Richmond's paintings are close in style to his father's work, but distinguished by the characteristic use of dark stippling in the background.
- His paintings were criticised for their overly idealised and sugary presentations of subjects, especially women.
- When John Ruskin's father commissioned Richmond to paint his daughter-in-law Effie Gray, Effie wrote of the finished work to her mother: '...it is the most lovely piece of oil painting but much prettier than me.
- I look like a graceful Doll but John and his father are delighted with it'.Richmond and his brother George had met Ruskin during his trip to Rome in 1840-1.
- He accompanied him on his visits to galleries.
- Ruskin's father was not as delighted with the portrait of Effie as she believed.
- He wrote to his son that Thomas was inferior as an artist to his brother: "Tom I regret to say cannot hold a candle to George - It is second rate or lower".Richmond died in 1874 at Windermere, where he had purchased an estate, but was buried in Brompton cemetery, London.
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