Ramsay Richard Reinagle

Ramsay Richard Reinagle (born March 19, 1775 in London ; † November 17, 1862 ibid) was an English portrait , landscape and animal painter .

Life

The son of the painter Philip Reinagle , who was tutored by his father, had his first exhibition at the age of thirteen in 1788 at the Royal Academy of Arts . After study trips to Rome (1796) and Holland , he worked for the panorama painter Robert Barker in Leicester Square in London . Later he exhibited (until 1816) with Barker's son Thomas Edward Barker landscape and city panoramas from Italy , France and Spain .

In 1806 he became a member of the Society of Painters in Watercolors , as its president he served from 1808 to 1812. He also exhibited at the Royal Academy. In 1814 he became a candidate and in 1823 a member of the academy. He painted a few portraits, but was best known for landscape paintings from Italy and England such as Loughbrigg Mountain and River Brathy, near Ambleside-Sunset (1808, owned by the Tate Gallery ).

In addition, he worked as a picture restorer and copyist of works by old masters . In 1848 he sent a painting by Joseph W. Yarnold to the Royal Academy , which he had only slightly altered, as his own work and then lost his diploma as a member. He was still able to exhibit here until 1857 and received a pension from the academy in old age. Reinagle's sisters Charlotte and Fanny also found recognition as landscape painters. His brother PA Reinagle exhibited paintings of horses and landscapes at the Royal Academy. His son was the marine painter George Philip Reinagle .

Reinagle's works include a. owned by the Fitzwilliam Museum of Cambridge University , the National Gallery and the Royal Academy, the Courtauld Institute of Art and the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Huntington Library .

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SURNAME	Reinagle, Ramsay Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English landscape, portrait and animal painter
DATE OF BIRTH	March 19, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH	London
DATE OF DEATH	November 17, 1862
Place of death	London