A Gentleman on Horseback
An elegant gentleman on horseback. Pencil and Watercolour.
Richard Dighton (1795-1880)
was an English artist in the Regency period, best known for his many satirical profile portraits of contemporary London celebrities and characters.
He was the son and apprentice of another noted caricaturist, Robert Dighton (1752–1814), and brother of the battle-scene painter Denis Dighton. The works of Robert and Richard Dighton are regarded as predecessors of the Vanity Fair style of the late nineteenth century.
From 1828 on he settled and worked in Cheltenham and Worcester where he spent the next twenty years, thereafter returning to London. He concentrated firstly on watercolour portraits and after 1835 on lithographic portraits. This example shows one of his fine watercolour portraits.
An elegant gentleman on horseback. Pencil and Watercolour.
Richard Dighton (1795-1880)
was an English artist in the Regency period, best known for his many satirical profile portraits of contemporary London celebrities and characters.
He was the son and apprentice of another noted caricaturist, Robert Dighton (1752–1814), and brother of the battle-scene painter Denis Dighton. The works of Robert and Richard Dighton are regarded as predecessors of the Vanity Fair style of the late nineteenth century.
From 1828 on he settled and worked in Cheltenham and Worcester where he spent the next twenty years, thereafter returning to London. He concentrated firstly on watercolour portraits and after 1835 on lithographic portraits. This example shows one of his fine watercolour portraits.
An elegant gentleman on horseback. Pencil and Watercolour.
Richard Dighton (1795-1880)
was an English artist in the Regency period, best known for his many satirical profile portraits of contemporary London celebrities and characters.
He was the son and apprentice of another noted caricaturist, Robert Dighton (1752–1814), and brother of the battle-scene painter Denis Dighton. The works of Robert and Richard Dighton are regarded as predecessors of the Vanity Fair style of the late nineteenth century.
From 1828 on he settled and worked in Cheltenham and Worcester where he spent the next twenty years, thereafter returning to London. He concentrated firstly on watercolour portraits and after 1835 on lithographic portraits. This example shows one of his fine watercolour portraits.
