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Ansdell出生在利物浦的儿子,兰开夏郡,托马斯·格里菲斯Ansdell弗里曼曾在港口,安妮·杰克逊。他的父亲英年早逝和理查德是受过良好教育的利物浦的蓝色外套的学校为孤儿。他从小就对艺术的天赋,和离开学校后的肖像画家查塔姆在肯特,也花时间作为一个画家的迹象荷兰. 

他第一次展出利物浦学院1835年,成为一名学生。他的动物和农村题材被证明是受欢迎的,他很快就吸引了富有的赞助人。 他的第一个展览皇家艺术学院是在1840年,伦敦,两幅画叫“猎捕松鸡”和“Galloway农场”。这之后,在1841年由“伯爵的障碍和党从狩猎归来”,1842年“先生的死亡威廉·蓝白屯在战役中马斯顿沼泽”,1843年“死”和1844年“苏格兰玛丽女王归来的追逐斯特灵城堡”。他继续展览图片直到1885年每年的奥斯卡(149油画)。 1846年,他表现出他的第一个图片,在“牲畜贩子的停止”英国的机构伦敦,继续显示,30画布。

1841年6月,他娶了玛丽亚·罗默,这对夫妇有11个孩子。1847年全家离开利物浦肯辛顿在伦敦。

1850年,Ansdell开始合作与照片托马斯Creswick在景观专业(如。:“南唐斯丘陵”、“国家”的一天,英格兰的等等)。他还曾与威廉·鲍威尔弗里斯(“门将的女儿”)约翰·菲利普在1856年,他前往西班牙和绘制了一系列西班牙主题——“航母”,“塞维利亚的道路”,“西班牙牧羊人”等。他独自回到西班牙第二年画更多的照片。

1855年,被授予一枚金牌,那么这项巴黎展览他的作品,“狼斯太尔”和“驯服开车”。他还赢得了“海伍德奖章”三次为他工作曼彻斯特皇家学会。他当选为皇家艺术学院副教授(ARA)在1861 和1870年皇家院士(RA)。 

在他的职业生涯的一部分,他“避暑别墅”Lytham圣安Fylde区,一个地区,Ansdell以他的名字命名。他是唯一英语艺术家以这种方式获得。

Ansdell死附近的“Collingwood塔”菲姆雷公1885年4月,萨里。他被葬在布鲁克伍德公墓.

作品

Ansdell最著名的作品包括鹿在海湾(1846),战斗(1847),和战斗的标准》(1848)——描绘的捕获在滑铁卢中士艾瓦特的法国国旗苏格兰灰色. 

Ansdell的主题进行了比较埃德温·兰西尔,尽管有批评的声音,虽然很受欢迎,他的作品缺乏后者的情绪上的影响。他的声誉是勤劳但偶尔狂妄艺术家;例如,他没有得到皇家委员会拒绝后油漆维多利亚女王的狗,除非他们被带到他的工作室。

他的许多作品的监护下Fylde区委员会已经捐赠给前者Lytham圣安公司在1930年代。这些画的选择定期上述Fylde画廊展出摊位超市Lytham群姑娘在哪里长期贷款。有进一步Ansdell油画挂在非公开房间Fylde自治委员会市政厅前,可以被安排或遗产天9月开放。

Ansdell最大的公共收藏的作品在英国利物浦的沃克艺术画廊,Lytham圣安艺术收藏,普雷斯顿的哈里斯博物馆. 

军事绘画

• 威廉爵士的死蓝白屯马斯顿沼泽(1842年哈里斯博物馆和艺术画廊,普雷斯顿)
• 争取标准(滑铁卢)(1848,皇家医院,切尔西)
• 争取标准(滑铁卢)(1848,皇家苏格兰卫队,目前挂在爱丁堡城堡)
• 托马斯·布朗恢复失去的队旗(Dettingen)(女王的皇家轻骑兵)

Ansdell was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, the son of Thomas Griffiths Ansdell, a freeman who worked at the port, and Anne Jackson. His father died young and Richard was educated at The Liverpool Blue Coat school for orphans. He had a natural talent for art from an early age, and after leaving school worked for a portrait painter in Chatham in Kent, and also spent time as a sign painter in the Netherlands 

He first exhibited at the Liverpool Academy in 1835, becoming a student there the following year. His animal and rural subjects proved to be popular and he soon attracted wealthy patrons.  His first exhibition at the Royal Academy, London, was in 1840, with two paintings called "Grouse shooting" and "A Galloway farm". This was followed, in 1841 by "The Earl of Sefton and party returning from hunting", in 1842 "The death of Sir William Lambton at the Battle of Marston Moor", in 1843 "The Death" and in 1844 "Mary Queen of Scots returning from the chase to Stirling Castle". He went on to exhibit pictures every year at the Academy until 1885 (149 canvases in all).  In 1846 he exhibited his first picture, "A Drover's Halt" at the British Institution, London, and went on to show 30 canvases there.

In June 1841, he married Maria Romer - the couple went on to have 11 children. In 1847 the family left Liverpool to live inKensington in London.

In 1850, Ansdell started collaborating on pictures with Thomas Creswick, who specialised in landscapes (e.g.:"The South Downs", "England's day in the country" etc.). He also worked with William Powell Frith ("The Keeper's daughter") and John Phillip, with whom he travelled to Spain in 1856 and painted a series of Spanish subjects - "The Water Carrier", "The Road to Seville", "The Spanish shepherd" etc. He returned to Spain alone the following year to paint more pictures there.

In 1855, Andsell was awarded a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition for his works, "The Wolf Slyer" and "Taming the Drove". He also won the "Heywood medal" three times for his work at the Manchester Royal Institution. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1861 and a Royal Academician (RA) in 1870. 

During part of his career he kept a "summer house" at Lytham St Annes, in the borough of Fylde, where a district, Ansdell, is named after him. He is the only English artist to have been honoured in this way.

Ansdell died at "Collingwood Tower" near Frimley, Surrey in April 1885. He was buried at Brookwood Cemetery.

Works

Ansdell's best known works include Stag at Bay (1846), The Combat (1847), and Battle of the Standard (1848) - depicting the capture of the French flag at Waterloo by Sergeant Ewart of the Scots Greys. 

Ansdell's subject matter was compared to that of Edwin Landseer, though critical opinion was that, though popular, his works lacked the latter's emotional impact. His reputation was as a hardworking but occasionally over-proud artist; for instance, he received no royal commissions after refusing to paint Queen Victoria's dogs unless they were brought to his studio.

Many of his works are under the guardianship of Fylde Borough Council, having been donated to the former Lytham St Annes Corporation in the 1930s. A selection of these paintings is periodically exhibited at the Fylde Gallery above Booths supermarket in Lytham where The Herd Lassie is on long-term loan. There are further Ansdell paintings hanging in non-public rooms at Fylde Borough Council Town Hall that can be viewed by prior arrangement or on heritage open days in September.

The largest public collections of Ansdell's paintings in Britain are in Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery, the Lytham St Annes Art Collection, and Preston's Harris Museum.