Frederick Richard Pickersgill

Frederick Richard Pickersgill
Self portrait, ca. 1850
Born	(1820-09-25)25 September 1820 London, England
Died	20 December 1900(1900-12-20) (aged 80)
Nationality	English
Notable work	The Burial of Harold Orsino and Viola

Frederick Richard Pickersgill RA (25 September 1820, London – 20 December 1900) was an English painter and book illustrator. Born into a family of artists, he was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools in 1840. He did some book illustrations for the works of John Milton and Edgar Allan Poe.

Pickersgill's The Burial of Harold was accepted as a decoration for the Houses of Parliament in 1847. He also did some landscapes under the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites.

In 1856 Pickersgill was photographed at The Photography Institute by Robert Howlett, as part of a series of portraits of artists. The picture was among a group exhibited at the Art Treasures Exhibition in Manchester in 1857.

Gallery

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  Orsino and Viola (ca. 1850)
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  Rahab Receiveth and Concealeth the Spies
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  Viola and the Countess (1859)

External links

• Frederick Richard Pickersgill
• Lee, Sidney, ed. (1901). "Pickersgill, Frederick Richard" . Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.