Portrait Style: His portrait style of Mr. William Forsyth in the New York Metropolitan Museum is a fair specimen of his style and there are two pictures of his in the New York Public Library. Another fine portrait style may be seen in the Art Museum, Worcester, Mass. He confined his serious artistic efforts entirely to portrait styles and painted every eminent Edinburgh man of his day. Among his sitters were Jeffrey, Stewart, Braxfield, Erskine and Sir Walter Scott.
RAEBURN, ra'bern, SIR Henry, Scottish portrait style painter : b. Stockbridge, near Edinburgh, Scotland, March 4, 1756; d. there, July 8, 1823. He was left an orphan at an early age and was apprenticed to a goldsmith, who, perceiving his talent for drawing, encouraged him in his ambition to be an artist. The favorite portrait style painter in Edinburgh at that time was David Martin, who was the only instructor Raeburn ever had. He formed his style, however, by copying in color, mezzotints from the paintings of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and while he learned the chiaroscuro of that master he never attained his almost Italian richness and solidity of coloring.
RICHMOND, SIR William Blake, English historical and portrait style painter and decorator: b. London, Nov. 29, 1842; d. there, Feb. 11, 1921. After studying during 1856-1859 in the schools of the Royal Academy, he traveled extensively in Italy. In 1861 he exhibited a portrait style group at the academy, and in 1865 he went back to Italy, thence going to Greece and Egypt to study the remains of ancient art. Originally a follower of Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, after he returned to England in 1869 he adopted the classical style made popular by Frederick Leigh-ton and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. |
