Bidspirit auction | Francis Henry Richardson (1859 -

Francis Henry Richardson (1859 - 1934) American - Francis Henry Richardson (1859 - 1934) Oil on Board, Signed, Measures (10 x 13 inches) w/frame (12.5 x 16 inches) Francis Henry Richardson (1857-1934) was born in Boston and studied draftsmanship and architecture as a young man. Setting his goals on becoming a serious painter, he studied with Alice Knowlton and William Morris Hunt in Boston. In 1886, Richardson sailed to Paris to join his friends Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf, and others to continue his art education at the Academie Julian where he was a student of Gustave Boulanger, Lucien Doucet, Jules Lefebvre, Jean Paul Laurens, and Benjamin Constant.He exhibited at the Salon in 1889, 1890, and l894-1899, receiving Honorable Mention for A Summer Evening--Etaples in 1899. During the years 1890-91, he traveled to Spain, Italy, and North Africa in the company of Colin Campbell Cooper. In Paris, his studio was in the same building with Arthur Wesley Dow and Henry Rodman Kenyon. These three would return to the United States and settle in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Richardson lived in Ipswich from 1902 until his death. Condition: Good Condition