Richard Westall

Richard Westall was born in Hertford and apprenticed to an engraver on silver in Cheapside. He attended evening classes at the Royal Academy, where he was admitted as a student in 1785. After establishing his reputation was a watercolorist, he became an academician in 1794, along with his friend Thomas Lawrence. Afterwards Westall specialized in illustrating the English poets, working with the engravers James and Charles Heath. Late in life he taught drawing to the princess Victoria.

TEXT RECORDS:

1808A Day in Spring.
1808Spencer.

PUBLICATIONS:

A day in spring and other poems. 1808.

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

English
Anglican

no formal education

painter
poet

John Taylor Esq.

REFERENCE:

DNB; not NCBEL.

Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors (1816); obituary in Gentleman's Magazine NS 7 (February 1837) 213-14.

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Richard Westall:

1.	1791  Charles Leftly, "To R. Westall, Esq. On Seeing the Portrait of a Lady" Morning Chronicle (10 June 1791).
2.	1794  X. Y., "The Dreams of Love, from Mr. Westall's Picture of Love awakened by Beauty" European Magazine 25 (June 1794) 469.
3.	1794  M., "Lines on the Drawings at the Shakespeare Gallery, intended for Milton's Paradise Lost" Morning Chronicle (9 June 1794).
4.	1800  Thomas Maurice, "To Richard Westall, Esq. on his beautiful Paintings in this Year's Exhibition" Gentleman's Magazine 70 (September 1800) 873.
5.	1803  Charles Leftly, "Sonnet to Mr. Westall" Poetical Register, and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for 1802 (1803) 120.
6.	1808  Anonymous, Review of Westall, A Day in Spring; Poetical Register for 1808-09 (1812) 552.
7.	1824  John Taylor Esq., "Lines on the Portrait of the late Lord Byron, painted by Richard Westall, Esq. R.A." The Sun (5 June 1824).

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Richard Westall:

1.	1816  Anonymous, in Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors (1816) 380.
2.	1837  Anonymous, Obituary in Gentleman's Magazine NS 7 (February 1837) 213-14.