Richard Redgrave

Richard Redgrave was one of the founder members of the Etching Club. A man of formidable energy, he was not only successful as a genre and landscape painter but was an enterprising designer and art administrator who established over 100 schools of art throughout this country. Richard Redgrave played a vital part in creating the interest in design and industry that led to the Great Exhibition of 1851 and to the foundation of the South Kensington Museums.