Frederick richard pickersgill biography of martin
Frederick richard pickersgill biography of martin
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Pickersgill, Frederick Richard (), history painter
Frederick Pickersgill was born in London on 25 September , the son of Richard Pickersgill, a naval officer and amateur marine and landscape painter, and his wife, Anne Witherington, the sister of the painter William Frederick Witherington (–).
His paternal uncle was the portrait painter Henry William Pickersgill (–), and his cousin Henry Hall Pickersgill (–) was also a painter.
Pickersgill received his first instruction as an artist from his uncle W. F. Witherington.
He entered the Royal Academy Schools on 21 April , having already exhibited a watercolour, The Brazen Age, at the Royal Academy in In he won a prize of £ for his cartoon The Death of King Lear in the competition to decorate the new houses of parliament.
In he won a first-class prize of £ for The Burial of Harold, and the work was purchased for the houses of parliament for an equal amount. Pickersgill was elected an associate of the Royal Academy on 1 November
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