Richard Collins, a miniature painter, was born in Hampshire in 1755. He was a pupil of Jeremias Meyer. In 1777 he exhibited some portraits at the Royal Academy, and in 1787 became chief miniature and enamel painter to George III. He died in London in 1831.
This article incorporates text from the article "COLLINS, Richard" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.