Richard Buckner (artist)

Richard Buckner
Born (1812-10-25)25 October 1812
Woolwich, London, England
Died 12 August 1883(1883-08-12) (aged 70)
2 Cleveland Row, St James, London
Resting place Brompton Cemetery, London
Residence 2 Cleveland Row, St James, London
Nationality English
Occupation Portrait painter
Parent(s) Richard Buckner and Mary Marsh Peirce
Portrait of a boy

Richard Buckner (born Woolwich, London, 25 October 1812; died 12 August 1883[1]), was an English portrait painter.[1] He did not marry.

Hon. Margaret Warren (1847–1921). Daughter of George Warren, 2nd Baron de Tabley. Wife to Sir Arthur Cowell-Stepney, 2nd Baronet.

Buckner was the son of an army officer[1] and grandson of Admiral Charles Buckner. Buckner first worked in a studio in his family home, Whyke House, Rumboldswhyke, Chichester. After serving in the army in 1832 and 1833 as a Second Lieutenant in The King's Royal Rifle Corps he studied painting under Giovanni Battista Cassevari in Rome.[1] While in Rome Buckner gave advice to Frederick (Lord) Leighton, later PRA, when he was starting his career. Buckner lived in and had his studio in Cleveland Row, opposite St James's Palace, in London.

He first painted miniatures but then changed to painting larger portraits.[1] He painted Italian genre subjects and later elegant and fashionable Victorian ladies. He first sent work to galleries for sale in 1840. He exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1842 and then every year from 1846 to 1877; 77 paintings in all of which only 7 were of Italian subjects [1] and was nominated as a candidate for the academy.[2] He also exhibited 22 paintings at The British Institution, 44 at The Royal Society of British Artists, 3 at The Grosvenor Gallery and 3 at The Royal Scottish Gallery.

Buckner's commission book has entries from 1840-1 to 1877. It lists 989 commissions, a few of which were not executed. It also includes a financial summary from 1842-3 to 1874-5 with fees totalling £67249. The financial summary indicates that he was in Rome full time in 1842-3 and 1843-4 and then partly in Rome and partly in London each year from 1844-5 until 1847-8 and again partly in Rome and London 1849-50, 1850-1, 1853-4, 1854-5 and 1856-7 and then partly in Dieppe 1861-2 and Boulogne 1862-3. In 1875 he was commissioned to execute a painting at a price of 500 guineas.

Many engravings based on his works are in the National Portrait Gallery, London.[3] His oil paintings Portrait of a boy[1] and Portrait of a Boy Chorister of the Chapel Royal[4] are in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Eight National Trust properties have Buckner paintings; images for most of them can be seen on the NT website. There are also works by Buckner at the British Museum, the National Army Museum, Windsor Castle, Osborne House, Woburn Abbey, the Birmingham Art Gallery, Harewood House, the Foundling Hospital, County Hall, Maidstone and Castle Leslie in Ireland. Queen Adelaide, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert commissioned some of his paintings.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Portrait of a boy - Buckner, Richard". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  2. ↑ "The Royal Academy". The Art Journal. 39: 109. 1877.
  3. ↑ "Person - Richard Buckner". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  4. ↑ "Portrait of a Boy Chorister of the Chapel Royal". BBC Online. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
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