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'''Richard Westall''' ((Post-nominals|post-noms=[[Royal Academy|RA]])) (2 January 1765 &ndash; 4 December 1836) was an [[England|English]] [[Painting|painter]] and illustrator of [[portraits]], [[history painting|historical]] and literary events, best known for his portraits of [[Byron]]. He was also [[Queen Victoria]]'s drawing master.

==Biography==
[[File:George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron by Richard Westall (2).jpg|thumbnail|George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron by Richard Westall, 1813]]
Westall was the more successful of two half-brothers (both sons of a Benjamin Westall, from [[Norwich]]) who both became painters. His younger half-brother was [[William Westall (artist)|William Westall]] (1781–1850), a much-travelled landscape painter.

Born on 2 January 1765 in [[Reepham, Norfolk|Reepham]] near Norwich (where he was baptised at All Saints on 13 January in the same year), Richard Westall moved to [[London]] after the death of his mother and the [[bankruptcy]] of his father in 1772. Westall was [[apprentice]]d to a heraldic silver [[engraver]] in 1779, where he was encouraged to become a painter by [[John Alefounder]];<ref name=DNB00>((cite DNB|wstitle=Westall, Richard|last=Dodgson|first=Campbell|authorlink=Campbell Dodgson|volume=60))</ref> he then began studying at the [[Royal Academy]] School of Arts from 10 December 1785. He exhibited at the Academy regularly between 1784 and 1836, became an Associate in November 1792 and was elected an Academician on 10 February 1794. From 1790 to 1795 he shared a house with [[Thomas Lawrence (painter)|Thomas Lawrence]] (later Sir), the future Royal Academy president, at 57 [[Greek Street]], on the corner of [[Soho Square]], each of the artists placing their name on one of the entrances.

==Works==
His works – many in [[watercolour]] – caused great interest in the late years of the 18th century when he was considered by his chief patron [[Richard Payne Knight]] to be an outstanding artist of the [[picturesque]]. He painted works in a [[neoclassicism|neoclassical]] style for [[John Boydell]]'s [[Boydell Shakespeare Gallery|Shakespeare Gallery]] and for [[Henry Fuseli]]'s Milton Gallery. His painting of [[John Milton]] and his daughters hangs in [[Sir John Soane's Museum]] in London. A number of scenes in which Westall depicts events in the life of [[Horatio Nelson]] are at the [[National Maritime Museum]].

[[File:Richard Westall - Landscape - solitude - Google Art Project.jpg|thumbnail|left|''Solitude'', landscape by Westall, 1811]]

Westall was a prolific book illustrator of both fiction and poetry, including the works of Sir [[Walter Scott]], [[Oliver Goldsmith]], [[William Cowper]] and [[Thomas Gray]]. [[Byron]], who greatly admired his work, stated that "the brush has beat the poetry". Westall was commissioned to provide illustrations to [[John Boydell]]'s editions of Shakespeare and John Milton.<ref name="DNB00" /> He also illustrated editions of the [[Bible]], including one with John Martin. His oil painting ''Christ Crowned with Thorns'' is the [[altarpiece]] at [[All Souls Church, Langham Place]], London.

His portraiture, in a style similar to Lawrence's, included Princess Victoria (later [[Queen Victoria]], for whom he was art teacher for eight years before his death on 4 December 1836), and [[Richard Ayton]], a writer who collaborated with landscape artist [[William Daniell]] (Westall's brother-in-law).

Richard Westall is perhaps best known for several portraits of [[George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron|Lord Byron]]. One of these hangs in the [[National Portrait Gallery (London)|National Portrait Gallery]] in London, another at [[Hughenden Manor]], and a third in the House of Lords.<ref name="npg">((cite news | title = Richard Westall (1765-1836), History painter | work = National Portrait Gallery, UK | url = http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp07720&role=art | accessdate = 2008-07-11))</ref>
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File:Wolsey disgraced (Westall, 1795).jpg|''Wolsey disgraced'', 1795
File:Shylock rebuffing Antonio (Westall, 1795).jpg|''Shylock rebuffing Antonio'', 1795
File:Richard Westall - Lady Hamilton (as St Cecilia).jpg|''Lady Hamilton as St Cecilia'', late 18th–early 19th century
File:Westall Vertumnus and Pomona.jpg|''Vertumnus and Pomona'', early 19th century
File:Nelson at Cadiz.jpg|''Nelson at Cadiz'', 1806
File:Sir Horatio Nelson when wounded at Teneriffe.jpg|''Sir Horatio Nelson when wounded at Teneriffe'', 1806
File:Damocles-WestallPC20080120-8842A.jpg|''The Sword of [[Damocles]]'', 1812 
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==References==
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==Sources==
*Marina Warner,. ''Queen Victoria's Sketchbook'', Macmillan, 1979.
*John Ramm, Forgotten Pioneer, ''Antique Dealer & Collectors Guide'', Nov 1998, Volume 53, No. 4
*Richard J. Westall, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004

==External links==
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*[http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/westall_richard.html Richard Westall online] (Artcyclopedia)
*[https://collections.vam.ac.uk/name/westall-richard-ra/39887/ Works by R. Westall] ([[V&A]])
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20151018220711/http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pd/r/richard_westall,_portrait.aspx Portrait of a Woman seated in a Landscape with a spaniel] (1793 watercolour - [[British Museum]])
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* Engraving by [[Charles Heath]] of the painting ((ws|[[s:Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Forget Me Not, 1825/The Parting Charge|The Parting Charge]])) with a poetical illustration by [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]] in Forget Me Not annual for 1825.
* Engraving by [[Charles Heath]] of the painting ((ws|[[s:Poems of Felicia Hemans in The Amulet, 1826/The Hebrew Mother|The Hebrew Mother]])) with a poem by [[Felicia Hemans]] in The Amulet annual for 1826.
* Engraving by [[Edward Francis Finden]] of the painting ((ws|[[s:Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Forget Me Not, 1827/Love's Motto|Love's Motto]])) with a poetical illustration by [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]] in Forget Me Not annual for 1827.
* Engraving by R. Staines of the painting ((ws|[[s:Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in The Literary Souvenir, 1835/Henri IV. to the Fair Gabrielle|Henri IV and Gabrielle d'Estrées]])) with a poetical illustration (Henri IV. to the Fair Gabrielle) by [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]] in The Literary Souvenir annual for 1835.
* Picture in oil colours by [[George Baxter (printer)|George Baxter]] of ((ws|[[s:Letitia Landon in Pictorial Album; or, Cabinet of Paintings for the year 1837|Burns and his Highland Mary]])) in Pictorial Album; or, Cabinet of Paintings, 1837, with a poetical illustration by [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]]
* Portrait of ((ws|[[s:Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1840/The Portrait of Lord Byron, at Newstead Abbey|George Gordon Byron]])) engraved by [[John Henry Robinson]] for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1840 with a posthumous poetical illustration by [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]].

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