We are in the painting era of classicism, which is partly accompanied by romanticism and the romantically transfigured view of the visual artists.
The main features of this art epoch are strongly oriented towards the Italian Renaissance and Greek-Roman antiquity. In the 18th and 19th centuries, this artistic form of expression emerged during the Age of Enlightenment and is characterized by ideals such as reason and rationality, but also by emotional emphasis and sensuality. As a result of different currents, we find ourselves in an epoch that is endowed with different ideals.
Richard Westall was an English painter and illustrator. He was strongly oriented towards the current neoclassical style and created graceful fantasy compositions, which were in great demand at that time. Among other things he painted paintings for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, he was respected for his portraits of historical and literary origin and he inspired the people of the time especially for his portraits of Lord Byron. The young watercolorist, who was known for his unusually rich color effects and engraving, spent his early childhood in Herford, England. Still in his childhood, the then artist moved to London after his mother died and his father went bankrupt. There Richard soon began training as a heraldic silver engraver, until in the late 18th century his main patron Richard Payne Knight described him as an outstanding artist and aroused great interest in him. Before the talented Englishman devoted himself to oil painting and watercolour techniques, he published etchings, aquatints (some printed in colour) and mezzotints from his own paintings or drawings. In the early days of this art he also made some lithographs.
As a watercolorist and prolific book illustrator, both for fiction and poetry, he was the leader of a reform of figure painting in his era. At the same time Thomas Girtin also created a change in landscape painting.
The brilliance of Westall's coloring was considered new and amazing in his time, although he used opaque pigments on a large scale. His contemporary Thomas Gray. Byron, who greatly admired his work, declared that "the brush has beaten poetry".
Westall was a smaller and slimmer painter and had a fragile health. In his later years he was Queen Victoria's master draughtsman and taught her the art of painting and drawing. His work as teacher to the Queen was his last professional activity before he retired and had to be supported by the Duchess of Kent together with a blind sister. This was therefore the end of his time as a painter and his artistic activities, which continue to inspire us to this day.
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.jpg "Glenmire Bridge, near Cork, engraved by E. Finden by Richard Westall")
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.jpg "Cavalry charge against French infantry, Battle of Salamanca, 22nd July 1812, 1819 by Richard Westall")
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.jpg "Design for Funerary Monument by Richard Westall")
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.jpg "H.R.H. Princess Victoria by Richard Westall")
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.jpg "Joan of Arc Receiving the Consecrated Banner by Francesco Bartolozzi")
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.jpg "Queen Judith reciting to Alfred when a Child the Songs of the Bards describing the heroic Deeds of his Ancestors, pub. 1801 by Richard Westall")
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.jpg "Audience with a Cardinal (The Benevolent Cardinal) by William Ward")
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.jpg "Flora unveiled by Zephyrs by Richard Westall")
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.jpg "HMS Captain Boarding the San Nicholas and the San Josef by Richard Westall")
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_Sketch_o_-_(MeisterDrucke-1613587).jpg "Officer Seeking Shelter with his Wife and Children from a Storm (recto); Sketch of Castle on Hill (verso) by Richard Westall")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1435380).jpg "The Birth of Christ (Luke 2:15) by Richard Westall")
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.jpg "Queen Elizabeth I Receiving the News of the Death of Her Sister Queen Mary by Richard Westall")
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.jpg "The Royal Institution, London by Richard Westall")
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.jpg "Henry III Replying to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishops of Salisbury, Winchester and Carlisle, Who Were Demanding a Reformation in the State by Richard Westall")
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.jpg "The Poet")
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.jpg "Rosebud, or the Judgement of Paris by Richard Westall")
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.jpg "King Henry V before Harfleur, 19th century by Richard Westall")
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.jpg "Nelson in Conflict with a Spanish Launch, July 1797 by Richard Westall")
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.jpg "The Dreams of the Youthful Shakespeare by Richard Westall")
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.jpg "David Garrick as King Lear by Richard Westall")
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.jpg "Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle, engraved by Thomas Ryder by Richard Westall")
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.jpg "A Landscape with a Portrait of a Lady, Full Length, Holding a Hat by Richard Westall")
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.jpg "Her Majesty the Queen at the Age of Eleven Years by Richard Westall")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Girl Wearing a Red Shawl by Richard Westall")
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.jpg "Landscape With Women, Sheep and Dog by Richard Westall")
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.jpg "Queen Elizabeth Receiving the News of the Death of Queen Mary by Luigi Schiavonetti")
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.jpg "Prince Alfred before Pope Leo the III, engraved by J. Stow, illustration from David Hume")
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.jpg "Cricket at Moulsey Hurst by Richard Westall")
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.jpg "Cardinal Wolsey at Leicester Abbey by Richard Westall")
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.jpg "A Boy Angling by William Nutter")
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.jpg "The Goddess Roma Appearing to Julius Caesar at the Bank of the Rubicon by Richard Westall")
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.jpg "Nelson Boarding a Captured Ship, 20 November 1777 by Richard Westall")
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.jpg "Audience with a Cardinal (The Benevolent Cardinal) by William Ward")
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.jpg "Charles Gough on Helvellyn by Richard Westall")
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.jpg "Prince Alfred Before Pope Leo the III by Richard Westall")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1132776).jpg "Vertumnus and Pomona, c.1807 by Richard Westall")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1447925).jpg "The Annunciation (Luke 1:26) by Richard Westall")
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.jpg "The Seven Bishops Going to Trial by Richard Westall")
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