Richard Corbould

Richard Corbould was an English artist. Born in London in 1757, he was a painter, in oil and water-colour, of portraits, landscape, and occasionally history; of porcelain, and miniatures on ivory, and enamels; and was furthermore an illustrator of books, and an imitator of the old masters. From 1777 to 1811 he was a constant contributor to the Royal Academy. He died at Highgate in 1831. Of his works exhibited at the Royal Academy may be noticed:

• 1793. Cottagers gathering Sticks.
• 1802. Eve caressing Adam's Flock and The Archangel Michael.
• 1806. Ulysses's Descent into Hades.
• 1806. View at Hampstead. (In the South Kensington Museum.)

References

This article incorporates text from the article "CORBOULD, 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.