Spring Flowers by Herbert Richter

"Spring Flowers"  oil on canvas by Herbert Richter c1920.

Herbert Davis Richter was born in 1874, dying in 1955. He was a painter of flowers, figures, scenes with figures and interiors, and was a teacher. He studied under J M Swan and Frank Brangwyn between 1895 and 1906. He exhibited at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Salon des Artistes Français from 1928. He took part in the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1937 and was awarded a Gold Medal. He was elected a Member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1910, a Member of the Royal Society of Painters in Oils in 1917, a Member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Oils in 1920, and a Member of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1937.

Biblio: Dictionary of Victorian Artists; Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940; Bénézit: Dictionnaire des Peintres

Dimensions: 490 x 595