William Blake Richmond
Bold mosaics and portraits defined his career.
Sir William Blake Richmond was an English portrait painter, sculptor and a designer of stained glass and mosaic. He is best known for his portrait work and decorative mosaics in St Paul's Cathedral in London. Richmond was influential in the early stages of the Arts and Crafts Movement in his selection of bold colours and materials for the mosaics in St. Paul's Cathedral and in his collaboration with James Powell and Sons, glass makers, in creating new colours and materials. This new material expanded the glassmaker's palette and was favored by artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement, primarily in the creation of stained glass windows and decorative art work. Richmond was the Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford from 1878 to 1883, succeeding his friend and mentor John Ruskin.
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Artworks by this artist
- Maude Sarah Verney
- Phaeton; Sunrise
- Town on a Hillside
- Joan of Arc
- Porch of Sultan Hassan 1888
- Portrait of Mrs Charles Rome
- Trees 1889
- Study of a female head, seen from behind 1882
- La vierge consolatrice
- Study Of A Classical Maiden
- Venus and Anchises 1889-1890
- Hera in the House of Hephaistos 1902
- Portrait of a Gentleman
- The Temple of Nike Apteros, seen from the Propylaea 1887
- An Audience In Athens During Agamemnon By Aeschylus 1884
- Ethel Bertha Harrison 1851-1916