DOI Heft:
No. 336 (March 1921)
DOI Artikel:Chesson, W. H.: Leonard Richmond, R.B.A., R.O.I., landscape painter
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21392#0113
LEONARD RICHMOND, R.B.A., R.O.I.
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WATERLOO BRIDGE.' PASTEL BY
LEONARD RICHMOND, R.B.A., R.O.I.
(In the possession of H.H. the Maharaj
Kana Bbawani Singh of Jhalawar)
sometimes awfulness, which is, as it were, scape. This he laid on the desk of his
the soul of a curtain articulate in the father, who viewed it with delighted
spectator, it is not probable that Zeuxis surprise. The death of Andrew Richmond
would have asked him to draw it aside, obliged the young artist to seek employ-
The above serves as an approach to ment, regardless of its congeniality. He
my subject, the art of Leonard Richmond, therefore worked in a lawyer's office, and
one of the most original and poetic con- in the evening benefited, as a voluntary
temporary landscape painters, an ex- student, by instruction at the Taunton
quisite colourist who so loves trees that School of Art. There the headmaster,
he sees them as no eye obsessed by out- Mr. Fred Mason, a very clever draughts-
wardness will ever see them. 0 0 man, observed his great talent, and in
Born at Taunton in Somersetshire on 1898 appointed him assistant teacher. 0
a 9th of June in the nineteenth century, He was still in the lawyer's office when
Mr. Richmond is still young enough to a phrenologist happened to call there and
consider every virgin canvas before him feel bumps. On feeling Leonard Rich-
as an opportunity for expressing something mond's he exclaimed, " My boy, it is
new. His father, Andrew Richmond, who absurd for you to be here. You should
died when Leonard was sixteen, built a be an artist!" 0 a 0 0
suspension bridge and was an expert This was no news to a youth who, since
draughtsman. At the age of twelve he learned to spell, was as fascinated
Leonard borrowed his father's water by the mere word painting as if it were a
colours and painted an imaginary land- mesmerist's eye. 0000
97
4f>
WATERLOO BRIDGE.' PASTEL BY
LEONARD RICHMOND, R.B.A., R.O.I.
(In the possession of H.H. the Maharaj
Kana Bbawani Singh of Jhalawar)
sometimes awfulness, which is, as it were, scape. This he laid on the desk of his
the soul of a curtain articulate in the father, who viewed it with delighted
spectator, it is not probable that Zeuxis surprise. The death of Andrew Richmond
would have asked him to draw it aside, obliged the young artist to seek employ-
The above serves as an approach to ment, regardless of its congeniality. He
my subject, the art of Leonard Richmond, therefore worked in a lawyer's office, and
one of the most original and poetic con- in the evening benefited, as a voluntary
temporary landscape painters, an ex- student, by instruction at the Taunton
quisite colourist who so loves trees that School of Art. There the headmaster,
he sees them as no eye obsessed by out- Mr. Fred Mason, a very clever draughts-
wardness will ever see them. 0 0 man, observed his great talent, and in
Born at Taunton in Somersetshire on 1898 appointed him assistant teacher. 0
a 9th of June in the nineteenth century, He was still in the lawyer's office when
Mr. Richmond is still young enough to a phrenologist happened to call there and
consider every virgin canvas before him feel bumps. On feeling Leonard Rich-
as an opportunity for expressing something mond's he exclaimed, " My boy, it is
new. His father, Andrew Richmond, who absurd for you to be here. You should
died when Leonard was sixteen, built a be an artist!" 0 a 0 0
suspension bridge and was an expert This was no news to a youth who, since
draughtsman. At the age of twelve he learned to spell, was as fascinated
Leonard borrowed his father's water by the mere word painting as if it were a
colours and painted an imaginary land- mesmerist's eye. 0000
97