Richard Brydges Beechey b. 17 May 1808

  • Artist (Painter)
While Richard Brydes Beechey painted a scene of Lt. Stokes discovering Victoria River, he is not known to have ever visited Australia though he travelled to the Pacific while in the Royal Navy.

Citations

  • Bénézit, E. (1948), Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, 8 vols, Paris.

  • Graves, A. (1905), 'The Royal Academy of Arts’, London, England.

  • Mallalieuh, L. (1976), 'The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920’, Woodbridge (Suffolk).

  • O’Byrne, W. (1849), 'A Naval Biographical Dictionary’, London, England.

  • Wood, C. (1971), 'Dictionary of Victorian Painters’, Woodbridge (Suffolk).

  • (1988), 'A Catalogue of Oil Paintings in the Pictorial Collection of the National Library of Australia’, Canberra, ACT.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870