Richard Corbould

Skiddaw from Derwentwater

The loss of the Romney, 1805, a copy is at the National Maritime Museum.

Richard Corbould (1757 in London – 1831 in London) was an English artist, sometimes misspelt "Corbold" .

He was a painter, in oil and watercolour, of portraits, landscape, and occasionally history; of porcelain, and miniatures on ivory, and enamels; and was furthermore an important illustrator of books renowned for his Napoleonic sketches of Ships, and a follower of the old masters. From 1777 to 1811 he was a constant contributor to the Royal Academy. He died at Highgate, north London, 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.